After the death of the alleged assassin of Strasbourg, the French authorities are looking for possible accomplices or accomplices. It is also Suspicious that supported Chérif Chekatt in the preparation of his act, or encouraged, said the Paris Prosecutor Remy Heitz on Friday.
Meanwhile, seven people in the police are custody. It is believed that four members of Chekatt, as well as three members of his close environment.
special forces had shot and killed the 29-Year-old on Thursday night in the Strasbourg district Neudorf on the open road. According to interior Minister Christophe Castaner had sets Chekatt his arrest, and fire on the police officers opened.
Castaner, to be referred to the commitment of the jihadists militia Islamic state (IS) to the assassination on Friday as “completely opportunistic”. This change nothing to the facts on the ground. The IS had the tire on Thursday evening, over his pipe Amaq voice declared, Chekatt was one of his “soldiers” and the call followed, citizens from member States of the Anti-IS coalition in Syria and Iraq.
France’s state chief Emmanuel Macron will travel on Friday afternoon after the conclusion of the Brussels EU summit in Strasbourg. The security forces were killed on Thursday evening, the alleged assassin Chérif Chekatt. Macron wanted to meet in the Alsatian metropolis families of the victims and the security forces for their dedication to thank, as Élyséekreise reported.
The 29-Year-old had opened on Tuesday evening in a busy Shopping street near the Strasbourg Cathedral and the Christmas market fire on passers-by and people, with a knife attacked. The death toll rose on Friday from three to four, another man was brain dead. The public Prosecutor’s office confirmed to the German press Agency. Several other people were injured, some of them difficult. France is made for years of Islamist Terror. Almost 250 people were killed.
Federal police controlled to the limit
The French police had been with the 700 policemen on duty to take Chekatt. In addition, the government had strengthened the soldiers in the Anti-terrorist operation – the arms of members of the Operation Sentinelle (the guard) to ensure the safety in public places and Christmas markets in the country.
The Federal police are controlled, in particular in the German border town of Kehl, but also in the Hinterland, as a spokeswoman for the Federal police, the dpa said. Were monitored accordingly, the vehicles, the passenger cars over a pedestrian bridge over the Rhine as well as trains and road.
Already on Thursday afternoon, there had been a larger police operation in the district of Neudorf. On TV pictures, numerous emergency vehicles were visible. The reason for the action was initially unclear. The multiple ex-offenders alleged attacker is in jail radicalized. The native of Strasbourg with North African roots, was in for Grand larceny, also in detention in Germany.
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the German authorities are joined in the investigations against Chekatt. The office of the attorney General initiated proceedings against the assailant for murder, attempted murder and dangerous bodily injury, as a spokesman for the authority said the death Chekatts. The Federal Prosecutor’s office had resumed the investigation because of the special importance of the case. Another reason was that from the attack on the Christmas market six German be traumatized, if not physically hurt. The leadership of the investigations still in France. (AFP, dpa)
