Two are killed, one is brain-dead and a further 12 are injured after a man went on a rampage at a christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday evening shortly before midnight. 20.
the Man was, according to the state prosecutor in Paris, Rémy Heitz, armed with a knife and a gun, and he fled after the shooting to walk up to a taxi and escaped the police, who right now is in an intensive hunt for the man they believe has been behind the attacks: 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt.
According to the French authorities Chérif Chekatt born in Strasbourg in 1989 and has a long criminal career behind him, who draws the threads of both Germany and Switzerland, where he has been imprisoned.
According to the state prosecutor in Paris has the relatively young man of 27 convictions on his record, which primarily has the meaning of violence and robbery. Should two judgments have resulted in, respectively, two years ‘ imprisonment in Germany for the theft in 2016, and a subsequent judgment in Switzerland in one and a half years in prison for burglary in 2017, writes France24.
Although he no terror-related convictions has behind it, believe the authorities, that he during a period of imprisonment in 2015 has been radicalised, why he was put on a special list of potentially dangerous radicalised called ‘fiche’s.
the 112 – 11. dec. 2018 – at. 22:38, Jens Rohde in the heart of Strasbourg-skuddrama
despite the fact that there was kept an extra eye on him, went on the attack in Strasbourg yet under the radar, and regretted the French minister of the interior, Christophe Castaner.
Police were on Tuesday morning on the 29-year-olds address in relation to a case of robbery and murder, but did not Chérif Chekatt. In turn, they found in his home a grenade, a rifle, four knives and ammunition.
Christophe Castaner said in parliament on Tuesday that Chérif Chekatt the first time came in contact with police due to crime as a 10-year-old.
the 112 – 12. dec. 2018 – at. 05:32 OVERVIEW: What we know about the shooting in Strasbourg
The alleged perpetrator shouted, according to the public prosecutor of the republic Rémy Heitz ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the attacks, and it may have managed to leave France, after he last was in the firefight with the police around noon. 22 in the district of Neundorf.
According to the French media, Le Figaro was the perpetrator in the first firefight with four soldiers shortly after the attack have been wounded in the arm.
the taxi driver, who drove the offender from the site, has subsequently told that the perpetrator boasted that he had killed 10 people and said that he had been wounded in the firefight with soldiers.
