{"id":25352,"date":"2018-12-13T05:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T05:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25352"},"modified":"2018-12-13T05:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T05:23:25","slug":"anti-terror-police-join-manhunt-for-strasbourg-gunman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25352","title":{"rendered":"Anti-terror police join manhunt for Strasbourg gunman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Strasbourg, France (CNN)<\/cite>More than 700 police and military officers across three European countries have joined the hunt for a lone gunman who killed at least two people and wounded 13 others at a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg, Tuesday, in what authorities have called a terrorist attack. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt, has an extensive criminal background that includes 27 convictions in France, Germany, and Switzerland, mainly for acts of robbery and violence.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Swiss police said they were &#8220;on alert&#8221; and in close contact with their French counterparts, while Germany&#8217;s federal police said they were conducting intensive search efforts on roads and railways, which could cause delays for people crossing the border. French Anti-terror police have also now joined the search, as efforts stretch into a second day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strasbourg, France (CNN)More than 700 police and military officers across three European countries have joined the hunt for a lone gunman who killed at least two people and wounded 13 others at a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg, Tuesday, in what authorities have called a terrorist attack. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}