Who is Chérif Chekatt, the alleged perpetrator of the Strasbourg shooting?

Still on the run, the author of the bloody attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market Tuesday night is a 29-year-old man, radicalized and with a long judicial history.

More than 700 police and gendarmes are mobilized Wednesday to find this Strasbourg who has "sown terror" in the words of the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, shooting with the automatic pistol on several people in the center of the Alsatian capital, around 20H . The man was wounded by Operation Sentinel soldiers before fleeing.

According to the photo of the search post launched by the police, the suspect, Cherif Chekatt, has dark eyes and black hair, thick eyebrows, short beard and a black mark on his forehead.

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