Two days after the attack at the christmas market in Strasbourg in France is the alleged perpetrator still on the loose.
This is the supposed perpetrator
It is 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt which is believed to stand behind the skyteepisoden at the christmas market in Strasbourg. It confirmed the public prosecutor in Paris, Remy Heitz, at a press conference Wednesday.
yesterday was his parents and two brothers brought before it by the police for questioning, according to news agency Reuters.
Still, it is not found traces of the 29-year-old, and over 700 police officers are looking for him.
He should be taken dead or alive, pronounce the French authorities on Thursday.
27 judge of the
Chekatt has been in the police spotlight a number of times in the past.
The supposed perpetrator was born and raised in Strasbourg and listed on a list with about 26 000 persons who can be a threat to French national security.
interior minister Christophe Castaner lit Wednesday that Chekatt was only 13 years old when he got his first judgment, and that he has a 27 judge.
Some of them are sonet in France, Switzerland and Germany. Chekatt was deported to France in 2017, and shall forward to the attack on Tuesday, lived alone in Strasbourg.
STRASBOURG: on Tuesday night two people were killed and one person declared brain-dead in connection with a shooting in France. PHOTO: Abdesslam Mirdass / AFP / NTB Scanpix Show more Jumped into the taxi the
the Shooting Tuesday started right after at 20. After that the perpetrator had fired several shots, he was, according to the Guardian himself shot by the patrolling soldiers. Nevertheless, he managed to jump into a taxi and disappear.
yesterday claimed the French authorities that the Chekatt to have shouted “Allahu Akbar” during the attack. It means “God is greatest” in Arabic, and may indicate that the attack had a terrormotiv.
Thursday was a third victim was declared dead after it that yesterday was confirmed by the French authorities that it was a terrorist attack against the popular christmas market in Strasbourg.
In addition to the three killed is a person declared brain-dead, and at least 13 others injured, according to the newspaper Le Fiagro.
Tried ^
Before the attack on Tuesday night was Chekatt tried arrested after suspicion that he had carried out a robbery in the summer.
Three killed in the shooting at the christmas market in France
When the police oppsøket his home Tuesday, they found explosives, but not Chekatt.
instead of, it is assumed that he should have taken into at the christmas market in Strasbourg. The shooting should have taken place in about ten minutes, and it should have been loosened a number of shots.
France has raised the emergency levels to the highest and started terroretterforskning.
More terrorist attacks in the last few years
in The last few years, Europe and France has been hit by a series of terrorist attacks. In 2016 drove a truck into the crowd in Nice and killed more than 80 people.
In november 2015 attack terrorists venue Bataclan in Paris. The attack required the 130 lives.
two years ago was a christmas market in Berlin attacked with the truck. Eleven people were killed. In addition, the truck driver shot and killed by the perpetrator in advance.
Tried to apprehend the supposed perpetrator before the shooting
