Several People Killed by Truck at Berlin Christmas Market

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He was going to be expelled but Tunisia was taking its time processing the deportation forms.

They didn’t want him back and Germany was hamstrung in getting rid of him.

In the case of Amri, whose asylum request was rejected in June, this procedure took months.

Tunisia first denied that he even had Tunisian nationality before making a U-turn.
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“Given his profile, it is hardly surprising that the Tunisian authorities did not really want him to return, and with Germany being a country that applies the rule of law, that threw a spanner in the works,” he told AFP.

There’s a suggestion in the link below that Germany intends to streamline the legal process.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/germany-deportation-headache-north-african-migrants-200947831.html