People gather near the site where Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri was killed in Milan on December 23, 2016. File photo: Marco Bertorello/AFPItaly has expelled a Tunisian suspected of ties to Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri, the interior ministry said Saturday. The Tunisian had given him a telephone and stayed in contact with him after his departure for Germany, the ministry said. Italian media named the Tunisian as Sayed Yacoubi, and said he had been scraping by in Sicily as a farm hand. Italy has carried out 42 expulsions of people suspected of religious extremism this year and 174 since the start of 2015.

Source: The Local May 13, 2017 15:00 UTC