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Terrorist went by taxi
The police “neutralized” the Strasbourg shooter on the third day of searches. Updated
Details of the tragedy in the Christmas market in Strasbourg on December 11 told the whole country of Remya Eitz, the head of the prosecutor's office of Paris (who is engaged in all cases of terrorism).
On Tuesday, December 11, at about 19.50, the attacker opened fire in the very center of Strasbourg, on Rue des Orfevres.
A little earlier in the city center located on the island (it is called large), this individual entered the bridge (Pont du Corbeau). On the bridge is one of the points of “security control”, where according to the plan from 11.00 to 20.00, people entering the center should inspect.
Of course, a person with a gun and a knife could easily go to the Big Island at 20.05, or, for example, at 10.55, or enter the tram there, but he walked and exactly until 20.00 - and even along the bridge located opposite the “main entrance” to the Christmas market.
After shooting on Des orfevres Street, he attacked people at two points in the center. Then he escaped from the large island on another bridge-Saint-Martin, where at first
He killed another person, and then “took a taxi” and left.
A taxi brought him to the Neudorf quarter, and that evening it was reported that the shooter was hidden on Rue D'Epinal, which was surrounded from all sides. But then it turned out that on this street the criminal was either not at all, or he went through the cordon.
“In the period from 20 to 21 hours (the criminal) twice entered the shootout with the forces of law and order” and was wounded, but he managed to leave, ”the Minister of the Interior Castaner said the same night at a press conference in Strasbourg. And announced that
Throughout the country, the “maximum level of terrorist threat” is introduced.
This “level” did not affect everyday life in any way-even in Strasbourg, almost everything worked on Thursday already on Thursday, including schools and kindergartens, and they said that they were about to open the Christmas market. However, the authorities have the right to announce the introduction of extraordinary security measures at any time. Including prohibiting rallies.
Twelve people received wounds in the terrorist attack, three were killed (data for Thursday evening).
The 61-year-old resident of Strasbourg was killed, who came to a restaurant with his wife and son to drink a glass, and waited for them on the terrace.
A 45-year-old tourist from Thailand died, who, together with his wife, walked along the Saint-Martin bridge. Then it became known that they were supposed to be in Paris that day, but they canceled the trip due to protest actions of the “yellow vests”.
The refugee from Afghanistan Kamal, a young guy who opened his car repair shop in Strasbur. He went for a walk to the Christmas market with his wife and two children. Kamal held one child in his arms. The terrorist from behind patted Kamal on the shoulder and shot him in the head. “The wife and children were not injured,” the prosecutor later said.
The shooting is a 29-year-old resident of the Strasbourg quarter of Koenigshoffen Sheriff Shechat, a “malicious recidivist”, who had previously been “convicted 27 times-mainly in France, but also in Germany and Switzerland.”
He sat in prison several times, “where he was radicalized, but only in the religious aspect, there were never signs of his readiness to commit an attack,” said the Secretary of State under the Minister of the Interior Laurent Nunez. The last time he was put in Germany in 2016 for the robbery of a pharmacy and a dental office (he took cash and gold crowns from the office). He served more than a year and was "sent to France."
The SHKAT has been a note on Islamist radicalization since 2015. The “S” base, where people who represent the “potential threat” to the French Republic are brought. “He was under the control of DGSI ( French internal intelligence. - Yu.S. ),” said the prosecutor.
It turns out that this is the 14th terrorist attack in France, committed by people from the “S” base. It is clear that it is impossible to speculate on the topic of ineffective work of the police and intelligence - after all, about 10 thousand in the database alone in the database alone, and everyone cannot be kept on constant control, but maybe it was worth making an exception for a “malicious recidivist”.
On the morning of December 11, that is, on the day of the attack, they came to the apartment with a search and planned to arrest him - in the case of armed robbery - but the shekat was not at home. The apartment found a grenade and a pistol.
In the evening on Wednesday, the 12th, the Ministry of Internal Affairs spread a photograph of Shekat.
More than seven hundred gendarmes and police officers were looking for him, “increased control measures” were introduced on the French borders.
In the morning of the 12th, Secretary of State Nunez, on the question of whether the offender could hide in Germany, replied: "It is possible."
A taxi driver who was driving a terrorist from the Saint-Martin bridge, then told BFMTV that SHAKAT shared his “motivation” with him.
“This is revenge for my brothers who died in Syria,” this individual supposedly said, who was born, grew up and lived in Strasbourg.
Updated December 13 23:30
The police “neutralized” the Strasbourg shooter on the third day of searches. Later, the prosecutor of Paris said that the fugitive accidentally discovered the district patrol, consisting of three police officers. At about 21 hours on December 13, they drove along Lazaret Street in the Neudorf quarter and saw a man similar to a shekat. When they called him, he first tried to hide, and then began to shoot. The police killed him with return fire.