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Video shows fleeing Berlin truck attack suspect in Lyon: judicial source

Newly released dashcam video allegedly shows the truck that ran through a Christmas market in Berlin Monday – Dec 22, 2016

PARIS – The Tunisian suspect behind the truck attack that killed 12 people in a Berlin Christmas market last week appears to have passed through Lyon in France as he fled to Italy, a French judicial source said on Monday.

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Video surveillance footage showed Anis Amri at the Lyon-Part-Dieu train station on Thursday, and officials believe it was at the station that he bought a ticket for Chambery, the source said, between Lyon and the Italian border.

READ MORE: Suspect arrested after truck plows into Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 and injuring dozens

Amri was shot dead near Milan in Italy in the early hours of Friday after he pulled a gun on police who had asked for his identification papers.

French officials are investigating how he arrived in Lyon after the Dec. 19 attack in Berlin that has been claimed by the Islamic State.

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