Strasbourg Christmas market attacker Chekatt shot dead
French police have shot dead the man who attacked Strasbourg's Christmas market on Tuesday, the interior minister has said.A police unit came across Cherif Chekatt in a Strasbourg street and shot him after he opened fire.Three people have died following the shooting at the market and several more were seriously injured.Chekatt, 29, had a string of criminal convictions in France and Germany and had become a radical Islamist in jail.How was Chekatt found?Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said three police officers had spotted a man matching Chekatt's description on rue du Lazaret, in the Neudorf area of Strasbourg at 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT). What we know so far Who are the victims? As the police moved to stop him, the susp...