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| Strasbourg Christmas market shooter ‘dead’ in central district police raid – reports | |
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| Multiple media reports are saying the French police have killed the main suspect in the Strasbourg Christmas market shooting, Cherif Chekat, following a dramatic police raid with a helicopter in a central city district. | |
| The French police mounted a massive operation in Strasbourg on Thursday, involving armed officers from the elite RAID police unit and a helicopter. | |
| Three or four gunshots shots were fired in the city’s La Meinau district and at least one person was killed. | |
| The suspect, earlier identified as 29-year-old Cherif Chekat, was first to shoot at the officers and was killed by return fire, a source told Reuters. | |
| The shooting at a popular Christmas market on Tuesday left three people dead and a dozen wounded. Chekat was shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he opened fire at the unsuspecting shoppers. | |
| The perpetrator was injured in the arm during a shootout with the police, but managed to highjack a taxi and flee the scene, prompting a manhunt. | |
| Chekat had a huge criminal record, being convicted 27 times for various offenses committed in France, Germany, and Switzerland. He was shadowed by DGSI, France’s homeland security agency, for harboring extremist views. | |
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