Berlin ‘blood’ brother

The brother of the suspect in the Berlin Christmas-market massacre pleaded with him to surrender on Thursday — and suggested that the fugitive would be disowned by his family.

“I ask him to turn himself in to the police. If it is proved that he is involved, we dissociate ourselves from it,” Abdelkader Amri told The Associated Press, referring to his younger brother Anis Amri (inset), a suspected jihadist.

Speaking from their hometown of Ouestlatia, Tunisia, Abdelkader Amri also told the AP that his sibling may have been radicalized in an Italian prison where he was incarcerated after leaving theeir North African homeland in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.

German authorities have released a wanted poster of Anis Amri offering $104,000 for information leading to his capture and warning that he might be “violent and armed.”

Police rounded up four people who had contact with the 24-yearold suspect, who was still at large three days after allegedly plowing a tractor-trailer through the popular Breitsheidplatz market in the center of the German capital Monday night, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others.

Anis Amri’s identification was found in the 18-wheeler’s cab, and his fingerprints were found on the steering wheel and the driver’s door, German newspapers reported Thursday. The body of the truck’s legitimate driver was also found in the cab.

Amri had entered Germany in 2015 and was believed to be in contact with radical Muslim groups, officials said.

A request he made for German asylum was refused earlier this year, but he was not deported.

ISIS has claimed that it inspired Monday’s carnage, branding the suspect a “soldier of the Islamic State” who was responding to calls to attack targets in the West.

A German security official told CNN that Amri had been arrested in August with forged documents in the town of Friedrichshafen as he headed to Italy, but that a judge released him.

Amri also raised red flags when he tried to buy a gun, the official said.

In other developments, the Breitsheidplatz reopened Thursday after concrete barriers were put in place to provide extra security.