France’s interior minister dismissed on Friday a claim by the ISIL terrorist group that the gunman who attacked a Christmas market in Strasbourg was one of its “soldiers”, calling the assertion “completely opportunistic”. “The completely opportunistic claim by ISIL doesn’t change anything,” Christophe Castaner said as he visited the newly ...
The gunman who killed three people at a Christmas market in Strasbourg was shot dead by French police on Thursday as the ISIL Takfiri group claimed him as one of its “soldiers”. More than 700 French security forces had been hunting for 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt since the bloodshed on Tuesday ...