Two days after the attack in Strasbourg, the police arrested in the district of Neudorf, a Person from the environment of the alleged assassin Chekatt. The 29-Year-old self is still missing.
In the case of the manhunt for the suspected assassins of Strasbourg has undertaken the large-scale police operations in several parts of the city. Here, the investigators took another Suspect from the environment of the alleged assassin Chérif Chekatt in custody. He belongs to the family Chekatts. A total of five Suspects are now in custody.
The special unit Raid combed, among other things, the district of Neudorf, to the Southeast of the Strasbourg centre, where the track Chekatts on Tuesday evening, had lost. Heavily armed officers moved in several houses. Details about whether there are any traces were found, there was not.
With the deployment should be dispelled doubts about the whereabouts of Chekatts, said interior Minister Christophe Castaner. Several streets were cordoned off to vehicles and the police.
officers of the special unit Raid were also in the Strasbourg district of Meinau.
With the Taxi to Neudorf
Chekatt should be shot on Tuesday night in the Strasbourg city centre to passers-by, and, respectively, with a knife stabbed. In the attack three people were killed, 13 people were injured. After the fact the attacker fled, delivered but two more firefights with security forces.
The attacker was injured, according to the Prosecutor’s office prior to his escape from the soldiers. He had escaped with a Taxi and let the taxi driver about ten minutes to drive before he was dropped out in Neudorf.
