Police killed the suspect Thursday evening after an extensive search.The strasbourg christmas market attack suspect is dead. The venue had plenty of cops.
Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday from christmas market shooting suspect Cherif cheka country , 29, died Thursday evening police bullets.
the French police carried out already earlier Thursday, the operation of the Strasbourg Neudorfin district, which shot the suspect Chekka had made the last observation. Police evacuated buildings and sealed areas, where the man was suspected to be.
according to Reuters reporters were told on Thursday evening that he heard Neudorfin nearby meinau in of gunshots and helicopter sounds.
the Suspect was searched more than 700 police for two days.
3 dies
Three people were killed and 13 wounded, when the cheka person opened fire on a crowd at a christmas market. The attacker fled the scene in a taxi.
Authorities exchanged the shooter with shots fired Tuesday night on two occasions. One soldier was wounded slightly.
on Wednesday, police released a picture of a man and information about his criminal background. Police told the man was dangerous and warned people from approaching him.
on Thursday officials thanked the citizens of the observations, which helped Chekka find. The man was well known to law enforcement and intelligence monitoring.
according to the Authorities, he had begun to be radicalised in prison in the period.
Heavy criminal background
the Shooter was behind the criminal convictions in France, Germany and Switzerland. Strasbourg is located right on the German border.
the German Spiegel magazine and the news agency DPA reported that the suspect sat still in 2017 prison sentence in Germany, and he was expelled after the French.
the Man had the anti-terrorist authorities interest for the year 2016. He was AFP’s source indicated the French internal intelligence DGSI:hin / cha-am.
Le Parisien newspaper reported that notification of the reason was the man’s suspected connections to Strasbourg islamist circles.
Before Tuesday’s attack on the shooter was already wanted for armed robbery. Another source says that her study was also attempted murder related.
Sources: Reuters, AFP, CNN.
the Police organized a large search operation for the suspect to reach. Thursday evening, international news agencies reported that police killed a man. EPA / AOP
