Cherif Chekatt, the Strasbourg terrorist who yelled Allahu Ackbar before shooting and killing at least three at a Christmas market has finally been shot and killed after being on the run since his terrorist attack.
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French police on Thursday shot dead Cherif Chekatt, the suspect in this week’s Strasbourg shooting, which killed three people and wounded 13 near the city center’s popular Christmas market.
France’s Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the 29-year-old suspected gunman was killed in the Neudorf-Meinau quarter of Strasbourg following a “police operation,” which began at 9 p.m. local time.BREAKING: Cherif Chekatt, the terrorist gunman who killed innocent people at a Christmas market in #Strasbourg, France, is now dead.
— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) December 13, 2018
Spokesman for Paris prosecutor confirms Cherif Chekatt, the suspected #Strasbourg gunman, has been killed. pic.twitter.com/VtvOACKXCb
— benwedeman (@bencnn) December 13, 2018
Earlier Thursday, Security
The suspected terrorist Cherif Chekatt, who was killed by Strasbourg police tonight, got radicalised in a German jail. This is typical for Jihadi terrorists: in the words of investigators, European prisons have become universities of Jihad.
— Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) December 13, 2018
forces, including the elite Raid squad, took action in Neudorf based on “supposition only” that Chekatt could have been hiding in a building nearby two days after the attack.