December 13, 2018

STRASBOURG, France — After a two-day manhunt that extended from eastern France into Germany, French police announced Thursday night that the hunt had ended and they had caught the attacker. 

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner reported that police in Strasbourg had “neutralized” a person matching the description of the suspect in Tuesday’s attack on a Christmas market.

Castaner not did confirm that the person apprehended was Cherif Chekatt, 29, suspected of killing three people and wounding 13 others at the Christmas market, France’s largest.

But an official in the Paris prosecutor’s office, which oversees terrorist investigations in France, told French newspaper Le Monde that it was Chekatt and that he had been killed.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/christmas-market-shooting-manhunt-continues-death-toll-rises-in-strasbourg/2018/12/13/63f3ddc0-fee4-11e8-a17e-162b712e8fc2_story.html?utm_term=.a4ef9495b839