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maltatoday, SATURDAY, 24 DECEMBER 2016 News GIFT VOUCHERS ALSO AVAILABLE VIEW MENUS ONLINE @ WWW.HOTELFORTINA.COM Christmas Eve: €45.00 per person Christmas Day: €40.00 per person New Years Eve: €50.00 per person New Years Day: €45.00 per person FESTIVE THEMED BANQUETS FESTIVE DINING FORTINA HOTELS SERVING A' LA CARTE MENUS WITH ADDITIONAL SEASONAL SPECIALITIES Fortina Hotels, Tigné Seafront, Sliema SLM 3012, Malta CHRISTMAS SPA OFFER FOR EVERY €100 SPENT YOU RECEIVE AN EXTRA €20 TO SPEND IN THE SPA NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN OTHER SPECIAL OFFERS Reservations: 2346 6666 Email: restaurants@fortinasparesort.com Spa Reception: 2346 2149 / 2347 Email: spa@fortinasparesort.com Berlin Christmas market attack suspect killed in Milan shootout A man believed to be the suspect in the Berlin Christmas market truck attack was killed in a shoot- out in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday. In a press conference, Italian interior minster Marco Minniti confirmed that the man who was killed was in fact Anis Amri. He also confirmed that he was killed when police officers returned fired after he had shot at them for asking for his identification dur- ing a routine patrol. "The person who was killed, there is no doubt that he is Anis Amri," Minniti said. "This night at 3am in Milan, during a normal patrol one of our officers stopped a person who looked very sus- pect. The man without hesitating took his gun and he shot at the police officer who asked him for his ID papers," he said. Italian news agency Ansa said he was shot in front of in piazza primo maggio, in front of Sesto San Giovanni station. One police officer was injured in the shootout. Fingerprints have been taken of the dead man in Milan, in order to compare them with German police records in order to con- firm his identity. Yesterday night, Germany's federal prosecutor's office con- firmed that fingerprints found inside the cabin of the truck that ploughed into the Berlin Christ- mas market matched those of Amri. Islamic State has claimed re- sponsibility for the attack, in which Amri mowed through a crowd of people and bulldozed wooden huts selling Christmas gifts and snacks beside a famous church in west Berlin. One of the 12 dead was the Pol- ish driver from whom the truck had been hijacked. His body, stabbed and shot, was found in the cab. ANSA said Amri travelled by train from France to Turin, and then taken another train to Mi- lan. Amri had previous links with Italy, arriving there in 2011 dur- ing the Arab spring with other Tunisians, and then spending three and a half years in six dif- ferent prisons on Sicily for start- ing a fire at a refugee centre and making threats. Two of his broth- ers, Walid and Abdelkader, said they believe he was radicalised by Islamists while behind bars. Italian authorities said Amri had been a problematic inmate. The justice ministry said he had repeatedly been admonished and transferred among Sicilian prisons for bad conduct. Prison records say he bullied inmates and tried to spark insurrections. But Italy apparently recorded no signs that Amri was becoming radicalised. Anis Amri