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Article snippet: BERLIN — Anis Amri, the Tunisian man who killed 12 people in an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in December, had been flagged weeks earlier as a high-level drug dealer, according to a newly discovered police document that has caused an uproar in Germany. The document, which was uncovered recently during a review by the Berlin city government, has induced a new round of anguished questioning in Germany about whether the country’s worst terrorist attack in decades could have been prevented. Berlin’s interior minister, Andreas Geisel, who announced the discovery of the document on Wednesday, told city lawmakers on Thursday that a thorough investigation “is what we owe the victims, their families and the survivors.” The document, dated Nov. 1, was uncovered by Bruno Jost, a former federal prosecutor whom the city hired to review the case. It said that Mr. Amri was suspected of “commercial-level, gang-related narcotics trafficking” — charges serious enough to merit prompt police action. Mr. Jost also found a second document, one that characterized Mr. Amri as a low-level drug offender, of a kind that would not generally warrant the most urgent police action. That document was dated Jan. 17 but was then backdated to Nov. 1, Mr. Geisel said. At a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Geisel raised the possibility that the police were trying to cover up their failure to act on the Nov. 1 document by backdating the Jan. 17 document so that it appeared that the police h... Link to the full article to read more