11 December 2018; 5 years ago (2018-12-11) 19:50 ((UTC+1))
Attack type
Mass shooting, stabbing, mass murder, Islamic terrorism
Weapons
Modèle 1892 revolver
Knife
Deaths
5
Injured
11 (4 severely)
Perpetrator
Chérif Chekatt (killed in subsequent shootout)
Motive
Jihadism
On the evening of 11 December 2018, a terrorist attack[1] occurred in Strasbourg, France, when a man attacked civilians in the city's busy Christkindelsmärik (Christmas market) with a revolver and a knife, killing five and wounding 11 before fleeing in a taxi.[2][3][4] Authorities called the shooting an act of terrorism.[5][6]
The attacker was 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt, who had multiple criminal convictions and was on a security services watchlist as a suspected Islamist extremist. Chekatt was killed in a shootout with French police on the evening of 13 December after a manhunt involving 700 officers. He had pledged allegiance to the terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) judicial sources said.
^Peltier, Elian; Breeden, Aurelien (12 December 2018). "France Declares Strasbourg Shooting an Act of Terrorism". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 January 2019 – via NYTimes.com.
^"Strasbourg shooting: gunman was listed as potential terror threat". The Guardian. 12 December 2018. Archived from the original on 12 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference Monde_continu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Attaque à Strasbourg le 11 décembre : point de situation n°6 du 13 décembre à 12h00" (in French). 13 December 2018. Archived from the original on 14 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
^Peltier, Elian; Breeden, Aurelien (12 December 2018). "France Declares Strasbourg Shooting to Be an Act of Terrorism". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
^"Christmas market attack: France declares Strasbourg shooting an act of terrorism". The Washington Post. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
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