2018 Strasbourg attack
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terrorist attack in Strasbourg, France
Key facts
- Date
- 11 December 2018 ; 7 years ago ( 2018-12-11 ) , 19:48 - 19:58 ((UTC+1))
- Attack type
- Mass shooting , stabbing , mass murder , Islamic terrorism
- Weapons
- Modèle 1892 revolver Knife
- Deaths
- 6 (including perpetrator)
- Injured
- 11 (4 severely)
- Perpetrator
- Chérif Chekatt , (killed in subsequent shootout)
- Motive
- Jihadism
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Encyclopedic overview
On the evening of 11 December 2018, a terrorist attack 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. Authorities called the shooting an act of terrorism.
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. Judicial sources said he had pledged allegiance to the terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
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