Unseen since Tuesday evening, Cherif Chekatt, the main suspect of the attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg, may well redo what he has mastered perfectly since he was 12 or 13 years: sow the police in the gardens of the neighborhood of his childhood.
An offender from an early age. At 200 meters from the rue d'Épinal, in Neudorf, where he was last seen, there is a house now under construction, where the fugitive Strasbourg lived about fifteen years, when he did his first offender weapons. On Wednesday, during questions to the government in the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior spoke about the heavy judicial record of Cherif Chekatt. "At the age of 10, he had a behavior that was already criminal, he had his first convictions at age 13. He was the subject of 67 registrations for various interventions and behaviors that were systematically marked by violence. ", said Christophe Castaner.
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An incredible ability to sow the police. In the district of Neudorf, the inhabitants remember perfectly the regular police raids, and the prowess of this kid, his brothers and their friends to climb the fences, to slip on the roof of a garage, to hide in a hut, to escape the police.
Still not found. Despite his injured arm Tuesday night, Cherif Chekatt has apparently redoubled, as in the days when he lived here with his mother, his sister and his three brothers. One of them, now in police custody, had made his mark in the neighborhood when, after the attacks in Paris, he began to wear beards and djellaba.
Since Tuesday night, the 29-year-old is still missing. 720 members of the police force are now at his heels.