The suspected terrorist from Strasbourg has been shot and killed by police at. 21, informs the French minister of the interior, Christophe Castaner.
– At 21 sees the three members of the specialstyrken BST a person go on the road. The person fits on the signalementet of the two since Tuesday evening. The police yell for him and will arrest him, but he turns against the police officers and fire shots. They answer the fire and neutralize him, saying Castaner at a news conference.
the 112 – 12. dec. 2018 – at. 21:10 Wanted in the whole world: we know about suspected terrorist on the run
According to the minister, 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt spotted by police on the street Rue du Lazaret out for the number 74 in the southern part of the Neudorf district. It is not far from the christmas market, where he according to the police on Tuesday night carried out a terrorist attack.
The 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt has since attacked the night been the subject of an intensive manhunt in both France and Germany. At the christmas market went the offender crazy with a gun and a knife.
Christoph Castaner also praised at the press conference the police action with the words: ‘I’m proud.’
the Attack has so far claimed the lives of three people and injured 12 more.
Several hundred cops in France have participated in the hunt for the 29-year-old man, and the police in Germany have also been involved in the great manhunt of the fear that it had succeeded Chérif Chekatt to escape out of France.
And the 29-year-old man is well known to the police in both Germany and France. He has no less than 27 judgments behind mainly robbery and theft, and has previously been imprisoned in Germany.
a total Of five persons arrested in the case, including Chekatts parents and his two brothers.
See pictures from Tuesday night in Strasbourg, where the perpetrator shot and killed two persons. Editing: Kristian Hansen