(AP) Opposition parties accused the German government Friday of hampering the work of a parliamentary investigation into a 2016 truck attack in which an Islamist extremist killed 12 people and injured dozens more at [a] Christmas market in Berlin.
A cross-party panel is due to deliver its final report on the attack soon. But lawmakers from the Greens, the Free Democrats and the Left party alleged that witnesses dodged questions on what intelligence agencies knew about the attacker, Anis Amri. Security officials portrayed him as a “lone culprit” although the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Benjamin Strasser, a lawmaker for the centrist Free Democrats, accused Germany’s governing parties of trying to “put a lid on this case” and asserted that the government had repeatedly withheld important files from parliament.
