Five arrests after a stop in Strasbourg

The alleged perpetrator of Strasbourg, sat, probably due to heavy theft in detention in Germany. The 29-Year-old killed on Tuesday evening three people and 13 injured - now he is on the run. Probably the radicalized man was injured according to media reports, prior to his escape from the soldiers. The police have detained five Suspects believed to have had Connections to the Suspects. the

After the deadly attack in Strasbourg, the police have an APB out with a large contingent after the refugees offenders. So far, five Suspects have been arrested, the Compounds of the Suspects had to have informed the police in Strasbourg. The 29-year-old man shot and killed on Tuesday evening on the outskirts of the Christmas market and killed three people, as France's interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced on early Wednesday morning. 13 people were injured accordingly, eight of them seriously.

The shooter had been radicalized since "several years," said Castaner. He is said to have been injured, according to media reports, prior to his escape from the soldiers. According to information from the broadcaster, France Info, he escaped with a Taxi, which he had stolen. Around 350 emergency workers and several helicopters were involved in the search, said the Minister of the interior Castaner.

Strasbourg's mayor Roland Ries confirmed in the Morning that the alleged perpetrator will always be sought. On the question of whether the man may have fled to neighboring Germany, answered Ries: "The border is closed in principle." It's all but possible, if the suspects have a car. The Federal police explained that there are controls at the four border crossings to France. Mayor Ries says, the city is a day of mourning begin. The Christmas market will remain closed. The three victims of the man were brutally killed.

The culprit is a Frenchman with North African roots

According to information from the German press Agency (dpa), the attacker, a French national with North African roots. He was sentenced by the district court to Sing for Grand larceny, a jail sentence and was in prison in Germany. After the Serving of the punishment, he was deported in the year 2017, according to France, the dpa has learned. Also Minister of the interior, Castaner said the alleged perpetrator had already been due to offences in France and Germany, condemned.

France has become in the past few years, the target of Islamist motivated terrorist attacks, the deaths of nearly 250 people. Also this time, Anti-Terror specialists of the Paris Prosecutor's office took over the investigation. The investigation was passed to, among other things, the domestic secret service, the DGSI, such as justice circles confirmed. France's government after the attack the highest national Security alert level to exclaim.

The French interior Ministry did not want to commit just yet to a terrorist motive of the attacker. The alleged perpetrator had not been police, but so far in connection with terrorism, said the Secretary of state in the Ministry of the interior, Laurent Nunez, on Wednesday morning, the TV station RTL. He was several times in prison, and there is also a radicalisation had been found.

Among those Killed in the attack, 45-year-old Tourist from Thailand, as confirmed by the Ministry of foreign Affairs in Bangkok. He had been together with his wife to a holiday in France. The Couple had only arrived a few hours earlier. The woman remained in the Ministry, unharmed. Also, the Federal Foreign office in Berlin, sought information about the victims in Strasbourg because of the Christmas market is in Germany very popular.

large parts of Strasbourg's city centre were cordoned off by Tuesday evening, about hours. People were called to leave the city centre in direction of North and to not go in the direction of the Southeast part of the town of Neudorf. There had been a search after the fugitive suspects. The police are called on to remain calm and to follow the instructions of the security forces.

The alleged perpetrator should have been arrested, a media report, actually, on Tuesday morning. As France Info reported, citing police sources, he was not at home. Thus, it is alleged that the 29-Year-old attempted murder. In the case of the search of his apartment hours before the shooting grenades to be found.

France's President, Emmanuel Macron, called in Paris for an emergency meeting. He consulted on early Wednesday morning with the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, and defense Minister Florence Parly. "The solidarity of the entire Nation for Strasbourg, our victims and their families," wrote the Macron on Twitter.