Latest: 'Several injured' as shots fired at Strasbourg Christmas market

There are reports of a shooting in the centre of Strasbourg, eastern France near the city's famed Christmas market.

The regional state prefecture has confirmed that "an incident is underway" on Twitter.

"Stay calm and follow the orders that will be given. advising people Consult official accounts to stay informed," wrote the Prefet de la la Grande Est et du Bas Rhin.

Police sources told BFM TV that shots had been fired and that there are "several injured".

The fire department in the city said one person was dead and three people injured.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/11/latest-several-injured-shots-fired-strasbourg-christmas-market/

A suspected terrorist is on the run after killing at least three people and injuring 11 more in the eastern French city of Strasbourg near its Christmas market.

Around 350 people, including police, troops and helicopters were on the heels of the attacker who had "sowed terror" in the city, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said.

French authorities are treating the shooting as a terrorist act after identifying the gunman, named Cherif C, as a radicalised 29-year old from the city on a “S” security and terror watch list. Anti-terrorist prosecutors have opened an investigation.

Questions were being raised over how the assailant had managed to evade capture on Tuesday morning. Police were due to arrest him over a botched armed robbery but he had escaped and grenades were found at his home. He was being investigated over an attempted murder, a source told AFP.

Hours later, shortly before 8pm, the assailant went on the rampage in Strasbourg’s city centre in the bustling rue des Ofrèvres armed with an automatic pistol and knife.

Police reported the attacker was shot and wounded by patrolling soliders before he fled the scene. According to France Info, the wounded suspect took a taxi driver hostage to escape soldiers. The driver reportedly escaped unharmed.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/11/latest-several-injured-shots-fired-strasbourg-christmas-market/

You can take the savage out of the Jungle, but------------

nicko wrote:You can take the savage out of the Jungle,  but------------

Police say he was born in Strasbourg; is that a jungle?

It is now !!

Islamist scum!!!

Tommy Monk wrote:

Islamist scum!!!

Not a member of Jehova's Witnesses, then?

No... not unless they shout "Allah akbar" while murdering and maiming innocent people...

He's a white nationalist, trained in Charlottesville.

No... Muslim immigrant...

So terrifying when a shooter goes on the run.

I remember when a Scottish copper was randomly shot whilst sitting in his patrol car then the gunman fled [not terror related]. The copper survived but poor guy lost his eyesight. VAST resources were spent  trying to find the gunman, as he knew how to survive indefinitely in the vast cumbrian & northumbrian forests. He knew how to live rough.