- German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin - and even kept Anis Amri under covert surveillance before halting the operation.
- The issue puts new pressure on Angela Merkel's re-election efforts, as critics lambast her for allowing hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers into the country without proper security checks.
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