Next time you see media stories about the "plight" of Muslim migrants at sea in their fragile rafts, remember the kind of horror that "rescuing" them and taking them in leads to. This nightmare would never have come to pass without these horrible "rescues" of Muslim terrorists and future Muslim terrorists.
A senior Italian police source told Reuters that Amri arrived on the island of Lampedusa, probably after being rescued at sea, in February 2011. Amri's crossing, made shortly after the overthrow of Tunisia's autocratic president in the first of the "Arab Spring" revolts, followed a route that tens of thousands of other boat migrants have since taken.
Amri was at a shelter on Lampedusa when migrants started a fire, destroying parts of it to protest against being held there. He told authorities he was a minor, though documents now indicate he was not, and he was transferred to the Sicilian city of Catania, where he was enrolled in school.
In October 2011 he was arrested after attempts to set fire to a building, the source said, and later convicted of vandalism, threats and theft.
Amri served his term in at least two different prisons in Sicily, first in Catania and then in Palermo, before being sent in May 2015 to a detention center to await deportation.
This was the first of many deportations that never took.
The Lampedusa route is its own major security threat that really became a problem when Obama decided to back the overthrow of Gaddafi. Amri had left Tunisia after Obama's Arab Spring led to the overthrow of its friendly government and the eventual installation of an Islamist Jihadist government that was forced out of power, despite Obama's support, by popular protests.
Italy tried to deport Amri to Tunisia, but authorities there refused to take him back, saying they could not be sure he was Tunisian, and so he was released after 60 days and merely asked to leave the country.
And he did. To Germany.
Meanwhile the family is claiming that Amri is innocent, that unlike the rest of the family he was never even religious, but there are plenty of reasons for skepticism. Tunisia provided a lot of Jihadists to ISIS.
Residents say in 2014 several families in Oueslatia had sons leave to fight for Islamist militant groups and die in Syria, Iraq and neighboring Libya.
That casts doubt on the radicalization narrative that the media is eager promoting.