2018 Strasbourg attack

2018 Strasbourg attack
Part of Islamic terrorism in Europe
Rue des Orfèvres where the attack started (pictured in December 2016)
Strasbourg is located in France
Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Strasbourg (France)
LocationStrasbourg, France
Coordinates48°34′57″N 7°44′56″E / 48.582611°N 7.748889°E / 48.582611; 7.748889
Date11 December 2018; 5 years ago (2018-12-11)
19:50 ((UTC+1))
Attack type
Mass shooting, stabbing, mass murder, Islamic terrorism
Weapons
Deaths5
Injured11 (4 severely)
PerpetratorChérif Chekatt
(killed in subsequent shootout)
MotiveJihadism

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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Monde_continu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Christmas market attack: France declares Strasbourg shooting an act of terrorism". The Washington Post. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2018.