| 2018 Strasbourg attack | |
|---|---|
| Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe | |
.jpg) Rue des Orfèvres where the attack started (pictured in December 2016) | |
  Strasbourg Strasbourg (France) | |
| Location | Strasbourg, France |
| Coordinates | 48°34′57″N 7°44′56″E / 48.582611°N 7.748889°E |
| Date | 11 December 2018 19:50 ((UTC+1)) |
Attack type | Mass shooting, stabbing, mass murder, Islamic terrorism |
| Weapons | |
| 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.
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Monde_continuwas 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.