Attack in Paris on April 20, 2017

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Franklin D. Roosevelt Metro Station

In the attack in Paris on April 20, 2017 , an assassin on the Champs-Élysées attacked several French police officers with a gun and shot one of them. The investigating authorities suspect an Islamist background to the crime.

Sequence of events

The crime occurred at 8:50 p.m. near the Franklin D. Roosevelt metro station on the Champs-Élysées. According to eyewitnesses, a car stopped next to a police bus. The driver got out and immediately opened fire on the police bus. He shot the driver of the bus and injured two police officers and a German passerby. The assassin tried to escape; he was shot and killed by a police patrol. According to eyewitnesses, the area was immediately closed. On the evening of the crime, the police and French President François Hollande spoke of a terrorist attack ; the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) announced that one of its fighters with the battle name Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki ("Abu Yussef the Belgians") had committed the crime.

Perpetrator

According to media reports, the 39-year-old French citizen Karim Cheurfi (born December 31, 1977 in Livry-Gargan ) carried out the assassination attempt. In 2003 he was sentenced to twenty years in prison in Roissy-en-Brie for attempted killing of three people, including two police officers.

The sentence was reduced to five years in prison in 2005 after Cheurfi appealed. Cheurfi was recorded as an Islamist threat in the Fiche S threat file of the Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSI).

Reactions

The act took place during the last television broadcast with the 11 presidential candidates ahead of the first round of the 2017 presidential election. Some of the candidates also commented on the act.

François Fillon , Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron canceled their planned campaign appearances.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Police officer shot dead in Paris - Germans injured on Champs-Élysées . In: tagesspiegel.de , April 20, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ Paris: Shots in the city center - two policemen killed. In: welt.de. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Grégory Danel, Gersende Rambourg: Assassination attempt at Champs-Elysées: le profile de l'assaillant au coeur de l'enquête. In: La Voix du Nord. April 21, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 (French).
  5. ↑ France: Champs-Élysées closed after police officers were shot dead. In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Anti-terrorism department determined: At least one police officer dies in a shooting in Paris. In: n-tv.de . April 20, 2017.
  7. ↑ Fatal attack on police officers: IS claims attack in Paris for itself. In: n-tv. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Assassination attempt on the Champs-Élysées: l'auteur de l'attaque identifié. In: lepoint.fr. April 20, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  9. ^ Sophie Bordier: Il tire sur un policier pendant sa garde à vue. In: leparisien.fr. April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 21, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Assassins identified after fatal shots on Champs-Élysées , spiegel.de, accessed on April 21, 2017.
  11. ^ Fusillade sur les Champs Elysees: le domicile de Karim C., principal suspect, perquisitionné . In: leparisien.fr , April 20, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017 ( French ).
  12. ↑ Elise Vincent: Karim Cheurfi était signalé pour radicalization depuis fin 2016 . In: lemonde.fr, April 22, 2017 (French).
  13. ↑ Annika Joeres : "To govern means to protect" . In: zeit.de , April 21, 2017.
  14. ^ Fatal shots at police officers overshadow the election in France . In: FAZ.net , April 21, 2017.