21/12/2016 The Papers

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are Lucy Fisher, senior political correspondent

for The Times and commentator Henry Bonsu.

Tomorrow's front pages, starting with:

The Telegraph leads on events in Berlin.

The paper says the prime suspect for the massacre was under covert

surveillance for months as a possible terrorist,

until police let him slip through their grasp,

Anis Amri stares from the front of the Metro.

He's now said to be the most wanted man in Europe.

The Times says the authorities suspected Amri of "preparing

a serious crime endangering national safety" but red tape

The i says the German authorities are under pressure after a series

of blunders in their hunt for the killer.

The FT pictures some of the suspect's different identities.

Its main story is that the world's oldest bank is to be rescued

The Guardian says Amri was known to multiple German

And the Sun has a pun on the Queen's cold.

Headline writers at the Sun have done better than that I'm afraid.

Most wanted man in Europe, they now have a name and that's the face of

their prime suspect in the Christmas market truck attack. The terrible

thing is that he's had such a long head start in escaping after the

German authorities held the wrong man overnight. Amir Anis. Tunisian

failed asylum seeker. Turns out he's the master of disguise, already with

six aliases, posing as a migrant from three different nations. He is

clearly very... Practised at hiding his identity. Yeah. Yeah. Henry, the

fact is, as Lucy points out, this man has had 24 hours, more than

that, now, to evade capture. The German admitted that they got the

wrong person. Yes. To begin with. And, clearly, there are a hell of a

lot of questions the German authorities had got to answer in

relation to this man. Because he was on their radar. And he's now on our

radar. Because they hell of a lot is known about him. Usually, when we

have the rest or the killing of a suspect when it came to the Paris

attacks a year or so ago, we get all this information once the person has

been killed or captured but we are getting all this while this guy is

still on the run. We know he was in an Italian jail for four years and

he managed to get into Germany under Angela Merkel's "Open door policy".

They had him on their radar and let him slip through their grass, the

difficulty seem to be the red tape. Then it needed be sure where he was

from and that Tunisia would accept him. With the surveillance powers,

the agent undercover in the Tunisian - Germany community or "Islamist"

part of the Bellerin community or if he's gone across the border into the

Netherlands in that community -- part of the Berlin community. It

would appear at the German security services that they may not have the

capacity to get on top of this. People are making comparisons with

this country and the way we do things. That is unfair. Difficulties

they face very difficult different to us on this island which we have

been doing for many years. This man has had a head start. We know a huge

amount about him but he is a man of many faces. Many faces. Front page

of the Daily Telegraph. The Metro has a big headline and a big picture

of the man but the Telegraph is a lot more detail. You talked about

that, Henry. Lucy, the Telegraph goes on to say that the authorities

in Germany couldn't deport him back to Tunisia because he didn't have a

passport. They asked the Tunisian authorities for a passport and the

passport arrived yesterday. I know. So many sliding doors scenario.

Minute margins of time and circumstance. The fact he was under

covert surveillance by the German authorities for so many months, it

is awful to think he was on their radar' was involved in a robbery in

a park and a bar brawl, never arrested. What would he have done to

merit a four year sentence in Italy? Four sentence in every any European

country, but to get that, you need to have done something serious. You

need information share but a lack of it between European countries.

Europol is meant to share this information.

Is seems not to have been done. We saw the same thing last year with

what happened in France. That's true. As you say, the problem is,

sometimes you that when European authorities tried to deport them but

if the home country doesn't want to take them back or doesn't accept

they are of that nationality or origin, that can become difficult.

Today, there is this detail that the passport had just arrived for him to

go back. Maybe that affected his timing that he went and perform this

atrocity before he knew he was about to be kicked out of Germany. If you

are a host country and there is a possibility that you can deny that

this man actually is a citizen of this country... Masi you're not

going to want him. Why would you want this guy back in this country?

We are assuming most of this is true. Remember, 24 hours ago we

thought it was a Pakistani person. We still need to put that note of

caution in. But apparently, he is a supporter of the people behind the

Sousse terrorist attack which killed over 30 British people 18 months

ago. Close links to a terror network. You'd think that in the

interconnected world that we live in that these kinds of barriers might

have been sorted out. You would think so. But one of the things

about Germany, it prides itself, post-war, on being very... You know

Germany. I've been to Germany many times, burning, Munich, Frankfurt.

Germans pride themselves on being very open, tolerant. Which is why

the extreme right has never gone beyond a few percentage points. Like

in France. They don't want the Christmas market and the places

where they gather in the centre of their squares to be corralled with

heavy masonry, with gun toting police officers. People are saying

this is the new normal, we've got to change. I've went to Westminster and

it was noticeable, the uptake of police present even in London. That

is the new reality, as you say. Changing the guard as well. Roads

blocked off on the entrances. It is unthinkable. What is the most crazy,

weird, unusual, outlandish thing that anyone can think of and you can

be sure that some crazy person he wants to kill people will think of

it. Lucy mentioned earlier that this man was a master of disguise.

Multiple identities. Front page of the Financial Times. Four mugshots

of him looking very different. In all of them.

What right, he's got quite a fat chow hall look. Very gaunt and thin

on the one next to him. Six different aliases. Three

different nationalities. Tracking this man will be difficult. But what

we have been talking about, how you have cross-border intelligence and

security that joins up all the dots. European court rules, indiscriminate

UK mass surveillance law to be illegal, Lucy. It's very

interesting, the timing of this judgment given that we have just had

this terror attack. The ECJ has ruled against this law that would

allow the Home Office, the government, to keep the internet

records and phone records of British citizens for 12 months. If you

suspect someone of being involved in crime or serious crime or terror,

instead of asking the authorities onwards looking to keep records, you

can look back at what they've been looking at online or the website,

not every web page but the general domain names. And the people they've

been in contact with. This has been ruled illegal because it is so

indiscriminate. The idea it is not targeted, you should not have these

net trawls of data that affect every UK citizen when there is no

suspicion. When you look at some of the departments that would have

access to this, things like the Food Standards Agency, the gambling

commission, you do think, as a British citizen, what I want these

people looking at it? What's going on? It's one thing, an author body

institution having access to this data but what about the individuals

in those organisations, are they incorruptible? We have seen cases of

police officers when they are upset with journalists, a journalist was

investigating a police department and a police officer used his access

to go after the generalist. It is the indiscriminate nature of this

mass surveillance that the ECJ is exercised about? That's right. One

of the most fascinating details about this case is that it was

originally brought by David Davis, Tory MP while on the backbenches, he

was a champion of Civil liberties. But as of Civil Liberties. David

Davis Spartacus. But he quietly withdrew from the action and kept a

low profile. Exactly. This is not going to matter when we leave the

European Union. It might do. Final paragraph says that this decision

will pose a problem for London as EU rules, bear in mind we have been

talking about terrorism, do not allow exchange of personal data with

countries that do not comply with its privacy regime. If we continue

with this, after 2020, we have left European Union but it might not

have, we might not be able to get the Europol type thing. Do you know

something we don't? Have you got a hotline to Theresa May? No. There we

are. All right, let's go on to the daily. This made all of us, all of

our ears prick up when we heard this, the health scare for the Queen

and Prince Philip. It's amazing, really. For me, this idea that she

had a heavy cold which stopped her going to Sandringham, they do this

every year. It just shows that given the Queen is 90 and Prince Philip is

95, it shows how ready they get ill. Public servers, all the travelling

they do, all the people they have to meet and come across the germs that

might be transmitted quite resilient. All those little kids

with posies! Lucy! That's a horrible thing to say! A bit of diversity

might help the Jean Paul. What's wrong with the Jean Paul? I'm not

saying that. -- what's wrong with the gene pool? They are both unwell.

This train from King 's Lynn, they get driven to King's Lynn from

Buckingham Palace. The armed protection. And then all the way up

to Sandringham. Yeah. They will make another decision tomorrow, maybe. If

they've got over it a bit they will go. It could be as late as Christmas

eve. But it's a big thing. That's when I head off to the West Country

or the Midlands. I go to Manchester. You go to Manchester. They go to

Norfolk, the family get together and it is important. Absolutely. To miss

that would be a shame. A day or two ago, the Queen quietly disengaged.

Not quietly, because it was reported by Nicholas Witchel quietly. That's

his job. Thanks, Nick. She's dropped 25 charities that she was patron of.

She will no longer be a patron. Those patronises will go to some of

the other members of the family. -- those patronises

The advisers to Theresa May are almost as much as she does. Fiona

Mill and Nick Timothy, they are both on ?140,000 per year, we have

learned today, only 6% less than the Prime Minister herself on round

about 149. I have been digging around today in all the records. I

was interested to find that there are 400 civil servants who earn more

than 150 K per year. I always thought the civil service was a bit

less well than that. As you reach the top earner. Is that a case of

our civil servants and special advisers earning too much or the

Prime Minister earning too little? That's a good question. The Prime

Minister and too little. David Cameron in an act of mea culpa cut

down the salary from 160 or so to 145. But the president of the United

States and about $400,000, post Brexit is about... 300 p! That was a

joke, not a statement! It was a joke! It's over, it's over! What are

you trying to say? Maybe the Prime Minister, considering the

responsibility... Have come a bunch of MPs haven't complained about

this? Because they want a pay rise. They are about to award themselves a

pay rise. 10%, isn't it? They are coming onto just under ?75,000. Some

MPs called me about this case today. MPs are unhappy there are 17

advisers in number ten who are earning more than them on their

basic pay. They think that's a bit unfair. Not necessarily the top

people like the chief of staff but when you go down the grade and

you've got right people advising London and what haircut to have. It

is a privilege of doing your job, being a public servant in the most

direct way. That's what I should have told them. That's exactly what

you should have said. Thank you both for looking at the papers. You will

be back in about 50 minutes. Do it all again. Looking at the headlines

again and some of the other ones will have come in. Many, many thanks

to you and thanks to you for watching. Stay with us, the

headlines are coming