on Thursday night it happened, which most people must have seen as inevitable.

Chérif Chekatt, the 29-year-old man, who is supposed to be behind the terrorist attack on a christmas market in Strasbourg on Tuesday evening, was shot and killed by the French police.

The suspected terrorist ended his days in the neighbourhood of Strasbourg, where he had spent a large part of his criminal life, and to which he fled after his wicked thing on Tuesday night.

A woman told police that she thought she had seen him in the Neudorf district, and the police increased, therefore, the presence further in the region – without turn down for guarding at the borders to Germany and Switzerland, which had feared that the Chekatt could be escaped.

however, It turned out that he had not come much further than to the town, to which he took a taxi after having shot and killed three people and wounded several others. Both before and after he left the taxi, he was in the skudduel with the police, but both times managed he to escape.

on Thursday evening ended his escape, however.

Three officers from the Brigade’s Spécialisées de Terrain (BST), which is a unit within the national police, which are deployed in particularly disadvantaged areas, discovered at random the alleged perpetrator.

Here cried the him an with the intention to arrest him, but instead of surrender, he gave himself to shoot at the officers.

They answered resolutely again and shot and killed the man.

Here is the suspected terrorist after the death of skududvekslingen with the police. Photo: AP

– Our goal was to arrest him, but after they were shot at, one or two times, they were obliged to shoot back, it sounded Thursday night from the minister of the interior, Christophe Castaner.

the Officers, who ended up killing Chérif Chekatt, was not heavily armed specialists, but the islamist itself was also far from being armed with the ultimate in weapons.

Thus it was found next to his corpse, an 8 mm-turret of the model, which was introduced in the French army in 1892.

No cops came something to know skudepisoden, and they were subsequently posted cops hailed by the common people on the street, as with a respectful applause paid tribute to the people who had set everything in order to keep the city safe after 48 hours in the fear that the escaped perpetrator would strike again.

Heavily armed police have marked the streets of Strasbourg for Tuesday’s attack. Photo: AP

the Population can, however, breathe a sigh of relief after the man, as the only one likely to have been behind Tuesday’s attack, no longer pose a threat.

the Police now need to instead work with to solve, whether Chérif Chekatt had co-conspirators, while at the same time they need to put themselves on a subject.

the Preliminary reported his parents and brothers were arrested, but it is unknown what they are accused of, and whether they have a direct connection to the attack.

Chérif Chekatt was known for a string of crimes in Germany and France, and on Tuesday morning, police would have arrested him for robbery and attempted murder, but he was not at home, when they met up at his address.

According to The Guardian working the authorities with precisely the failure of arrest as a possible trigger for the 29-year-old committed the attack at the christmas market.

Three of the victims of the attack at the christmas market hovers still between life and death, informed the secretary of the interior on Thursday night.

the Christmas market in Strasbourg has been closed since the attack, but according to plan it should open again on Friday during the increased guarding.

Large amounts of flowers and candles have been placed in Strasbourg to commemorate the victims. Photo: Reuters/Christian Hartmann/Ritzau Scanpix

OVERVIEW: How to progress the attack in Strasbourg

Three people are dead and 13 others are injured, after the 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt on Tuesday evening opened fire at a christmas market in Strasbourg. Thursday night was the suspect shot and killed by police.

Here is what we know about the attack:

* on Tuesday, around the clock 19.50 opens a man a fire near the Place Kléber where the christmas market Christkindelsmärik is held.

* Then, he runs down the small, narrow street, Rue des Orfèvres, which is filled with shops and cafés. Here, he opens fire, just as he when to open fire on the nearby Rue des Grandes-Arcades, before he flees across the bridge Pont du Corbeau.

* In all goods the shooting in about ten minutes and takes place across several blocks. In this period belong several witnesses the perpetrator shout “Allahu Akbar” (God is great, ed.). Other witnesses says that he also tries to attack people with a knife.

* the Offender meets a soldaterpatrulje during his escape, and there is a skirmish place. A soldier is hit by the shot in the hand, while the offender gets shot in the arm.

* A 45-year-old thai tourist gets hit by shots in the head in front of a restaurant and dies.

* the Perpetrator is fleeing in a taxi in the direction of the district of Neudorf, and crossed the Place de l’étoile.

* the taxi driver has since told police that the suspect boasted that he had killed people, and that he had a grenade at home.

* on the Night of Wednesday is going to be 350 security forces and several helicopters deployed in the hunt for the perpetrator. On Wednesday, fed the search for a further 500 soldiers.

* After two-day manhunt the suspect shot and killed by police in Neudorf on Thursday evening.

* Since Tuesday he had allegedly been hiding in a warehouse in Plaine-des-Bouchers in the district of Meinau, not far from the district of Neudorf.

Sources: The Guardian, France 24, France Info.

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