The Frenchman still on the run after killing three and injuring 12 at Strasbourg’s Christmas market on Tuesday night is known to Swiss police and spent several months in a Basel jail for burglary and theft with some violence,according to a police spokeswoman. “But he wasn’t at all known as a terrorist,” Cathy Maret told Swiss public broadcaster, and RTS,on Wednesday. She said Switzerland had stepped up border security in the wake of the attack, and cantonal police hold also stepped up security at Swiss Christmas markets. French police hold launched a spacious manhunt for the 29-year-old known as Chérif C. and are treating it as a terrorist attack. “Given the place targeted, and the way the attacker behaved and the fact that witnesses heard him shouting Allah Akbar’,the Paris anti-terrorist unit took over the case final night,” Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz said at a press conference on Wednesday. He said four people close to the suspect had been taken into provisional detention. The ...
Source: swissinfo.ch