French police have detained Cherif Chekatts parents and two of his brothers.
in Addition, a third brother allegedly been arrested in Algeria.
This writes the German news agency dpa.
The 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt is suspected of being behind an attack on Tuesday evening in Strasbourg, where three people were killed by shot and several were wounded.
Subsequently, the police have arrested his father and mother and two of his brothers.
in Addition, a fifth person, who is not a member of the family, was arrested. It informs the public prosecutor’s office in Strasbourg to the dpa.
A 34-year-old brother, Cherif must also have been arrested.
He is apprehended in Algeria, reports Le Parisien. According to the newspaper’s information, he left France before the shooting.
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Chekatt have since Tuesday been wanted by large police forces. Thursday evening ended menneskejagten, when he was killed in a skirmish with police officers.
a Few hours after took on the Islamic State (IS) the blame for the attack in Strasbourg, which happened near a christmas market.
It came to pass through the medium Amaq, which often conveys messages from the extremist movement.
the Offender is referred to as the “soldier of the Islamic State”.
– He performed the action in response to the call to attack citizens from koalitionslande, with reference to the countries fighting the IS in Syria and Iraq.
the ICE cream does not set the name of the person in the message. The movement undertakes regularly to blame for the attack, but without documenting the claim.
The French authorities are investigating the attack in Strasbourg as a terrorhændelse.
Chekatt was an old acquaintance of the police. He committed the first of a long series of criminal acts already in his early teens.
