Attack in Strasbourg in 2018

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Entrance to the Strasbourg Christmas Market (2013)
Police operation on the evening of the attack
Kléberplatz near the crime scene (2013)
Christmas booths closed after the attack on Place Gutenberg on December 13, 2018
Remembrance in the rue des Orfèvres
Mourning candles after the attack

In an Islamist- motivated attack in Strasbourg ( France ) on December 11, 2018 near the Strasbourg Christmas market, five people died and eleven others were injured, some seriously. The perpetrator was killed two days later in an exchange of fire with the police in Strasbourg. In the course of the investigation it became clear that the habitual criminal acted out of Islamist fanatical motives and assigned himself to the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).

Investigations

Sequence of events

From 7:50 p.m., the perpetrator fired a handgun at passers-by in several streets near the Christkindelsmärik on Kléberplatz and stabbed others with a knife. According to initial reports, three people were killed, six were seriously injured and six others were slightly injured. The perpetrator, who shouted “ Allahu akbar ” during the attack , was shot by soldiers patrolling the Operation Sentinelle before he could escape.

Manhunt

In France, the terror warning level according to Plan Vigipirate was set to the highest possible level. Chérif Chekatt was identified as the suspect. The search for him was intensified. The French police and gendarmerie increased controls on vehicle traffic with neighboring Germany. The authorities assumed that the alleged perpetrator might have fled to Germany. In France, five suspects have been taken into custody, according to anti-terrorism prosecutors; they are to be interrogated about the fact. All French security authorities, including their anti-terror units ( BRI , RAID, etc.) were involved in the search . In an official search call , the population was asked for help. In a raid on a warehouse in the Neudorf district on December 13th, according to media reports, Chérif Chekatt was killed after an exchange of fire with the Police National's special unit BST ( Brigade spécialisée de terrain ) .

consequences

The police cordoned off parts of the city center and the building of the European Parliament , in which hundreds of parliamentarians and employees were staying because of an ongoing week of session, who could not leave the building on the evening of the crime. In the sealed off parliament, the appointed MPs continued an ongoing debate. President Emmanuel Macron sent his Interior Minister Christophe Castaner to Strasbourg that evening . An employee of the mayor appealed by short message service Twitter to all citizens of the city to stay at home during the evening.

The French anti-terrorist public prosecutor's office opened an investigation based on Islamist terrorism .

The terrorist militia Islamic State claimed the attack for itself shortly afterwards. According to the Amaq propaganda channel, the attacker was an Islamic State soldier. However, the notification is kept in the usual standard format without further evidence of a connection between the perpetrator and the terrorist organization. After the death of the assassin, however, a video was found on a USB stick in which he swore an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State organization .

Victim

The five male fatalities come from France, Afghanistan , Italy , Poland and Thailand . Another seriously injured person is already brain dead . Nine other victims have been injured.

Perpetrator

The alleged perpetrator Chérif Chekatt was born in Strasbourg, was a French national with roots in Morocco and was 29 at the time of the attack. He grew up with his mother with a sister and three brothers. He had a degree comparable to the secondary school leaving certificate and worked for the community after school. Afterwards he had been unemployed since 2011 and, according to his own admission, traveled a lot. He had 27 previous convictions in France, Switzerland and Germany and was known to the authorities for criminal activities since he was a teenager . He was also investigated in Luxembourg.

He was listed as a so-called threat in the French security database Fiche S and monitored by the French domestic secret service (DGSI) . On the day of the crime, he should have been questioned in the morning as a suspect of another violent crime, but did not appear for questioning.

crime

In 2012, Chekatt broke into a dental practice in Mainz and stole money and dental gold. Also in 2012 he was active as a crime tourist in four Swiss cantons. Four years later there was a break-in in a pharmacy in Engen , where he was caught with the help of a police helicopter . Before the district court singing came through analyzing DNA out that he is responsible for breaking into the dentist's office. He was sentenced to two years and three months in prison, first sat in the Konstanz penal institution , then in the Freiburg penal institution . According to the dpa , the verdict says that Chekatt has already spent a total of four years in prisons. In February 2017 he was released and deported to France . He was banned from re-entering the Federal Republic for 10 years.

When he was deported, the German immigration authorities certified that he had a “high level of criminal energy” and a “personality structure characterized by ruthless pursuit of profit”. According to Laurent Nunez, State Secretary in the French Ministry of the Interior, "a radicalization in his religious practice" was discovered during his prison stays and he was monitored on the basis of this. Chekatt was known to the German authorities as a criminal, but not as a terrorist threat; the Joint Counter-Terrorism Center (GTAZ) also had no knowledge of him. The inadequate exchange of information within the European Union about Islamist threats is criticized, which is attributed to the fact that no common definition of a threat has been agreed so far. In France, Chekatt was one of the top threats to the Islamist milieu in France.

After a 48-hour escape, Chérif Chekatt was shot dead by a special police unit in the Neudorf district of Strasbourg on December 13, 2018 .

There were three co-suspects in police custody. A preliminary investigation has been initiated against a co-suspect of the attack in Strasbourg. He is suspected of having obtained the gun that Chekatt shot around with.

Chérif Chekatt was buried in Strasbourg on December 22, 2018. The Islamic Council CFCM had urged a quick and anonymous burial to prevent a memorial for Islamists from being erected.

motive

Before the attack, Chérif Chekatt was notoriously a criminal, but the investigative authorities assume that he carried out the attack as an Islamist act of terrorism. The perpetrator's father, Abdelkrim Chekatt, confirmed that his son represented the theses of the Islamic State group . A video was found on a USB stick in Chérif Chekatt's apartment, in which he took an oath of allegiance to the Islamic State organization .

Conspiracy theory

Supporters of the yellow vests movement , a protest movement formed in France at the end of October 2018, claim in conspiracy theories on social networks that the attack in Strasbourg was organized by the French government to weaken the yellow vests movement.

Web links

Commons : Strasbourg attack 2018  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

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