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Berlin (AP) - With the questioning of the former interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Ralf Jäger (SPD), the Bundestag's investigative committee on the attack on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz is expected to end its public witness interviews on Thursday evening.

On Friday, a clerk from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution should testify in camera.

The committee has the task of clearing up official errors related to the attack on the Berlin Christmas market.

The Tunisian Anis Amri shot a truck driver in Berlin on December 19, 2016.

With his vehicle he raced through the Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz, where eleven more people died.

The authorities had already noticed the rejected asylum seeker as an Islamist threat.

After the attack, he fled to Italy, where he was shot by the police.

Jäger said that in the Amri case, the security authorities "made a fatal misjudgment".

The politicians responsible at the time could only apologize to the bereaved and the more than 70 injured.

At the beginning of 2017 there were 224 Islamists in North Rhine-Westphalia alone who were classified by the police as dangerous.

Round-the-clock monitoring of all these people is simply impossible.

According to Jäger, one reason why Amri was not deported from NRW was the Tunisian government's unwillingness to cooperate in this matter.

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The State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia correctly assessed the danger of Amri at the time, said Jäger.

Amri had only lived in Kleve and later moved to Berlin, where he frequented Salafist mosques.

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Press release Ministry of the Interior from January 13, 21