How could the 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt evade the French authorities sökljus in the fight against terror? He was well known by the police that listed the 27 points of his records during the 16 years of time, even for serious violent crimes, and it was also known that he was radicalized by islamic extremists in prison, a sentence he received in Germany and Switzerland.
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Chekatt was included in the Fiche’s, the French judiciary’s list of persons suspected of posing a serious threat to national security. He collaborated with someone on it, or with someone abroad?
in the ongoing mapping of Tuesday’s atrocities. President Emmanuel Macron said, from a summit in Brussels on Friday, that France should ”take a lesson from the consequences” of any police mistakes and work with ”what can be improved”.
the Hunt for Chekatt also took his time. 29-year-old firing his ancient militärrevolver at the christmas market at 19.50, was hit in the arm during the shootout with a antiterrorstyrka and a police patrol, before he left the place by taxi in the direction of the district of Neudorf.
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Taxiföraren have told us that Chekatt skrävlat on, among other things, his deed and that he had a hand grenade at home – his lösmynthet led to police quickly identifying him as a suspect. Still, it would take until Thursday evening before the extensive sökinsatsen with the help of crucial evidence could find him in the right Neudorf, where he opened fire on the police who killed him with a backdrop.
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a suspect in the case, which is described as a terrorist incident, four family members and three in Chekatts intercourse. These are being investigated for possible dealings with Chekatt, either in preparation or if someone afterwards helped him to keep himself from justice.
Terrorsekten IS, as so often at this kind of events that you are standing behind the Chekatt, but many experts have assessed it as doubtful. Interior minister Christophe Castaner dismissed the claim on Friday and called it completely opportunistic: ”What we have to do with a man who was just swallowed up by evil.”