On Tuesday, december 11, occurred in a shooting on the central street of the Rue des Grandes-Arcades in Strasbourg, where a christmas market was held. The shooting then continued on the other streets before the 29-year-old shooter fled.
immediately on the spot, one more person was confirmed dead on Thursday, and on Friday confirmed the prosecutor a fourth person died of their injuries.
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The suspected shooter was on the run until Thursday evening, when police killed a man in a shootout.
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Three days after the attack now has the christmas market opened again to the public, reports the BBC.
– We have a limited number of entrances with checkpoints, body and väskvisitationer. We have reduced the greater controls with a better allocation of police resources, ” says Roland Ries, Strasbourg’s mayor, according to the BBC.
as the ”christmas capital” and the christmas market is a tourist magnet. Each year visit approximately two million christmas market.
Then the attack has the christmas market in Strasbourg has been closed and over 700 police officers and soldiers have been hunting the now-deceased suspect.
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