And he was calling for “practising a radical form of religion” (of course the hopeless Laurent Nuñez doesn’t dare name which religion), but he still wasn’t considered a threat to carry out an act of jihad violence. All the relevant authorities in France should be fired for this, but they won’t be.
“French police release photo of suspected Strasbourg gunman Cherif Chekatt,” The Local, December 12, 2018:
French police have released an image of Cherif Chekatt, the suspected gunman who opened fire in the centre of Strasbourg on Tuesday night leaving at least two dead and several critically injured.
French police tweeted out a public appeal for help in hunting down the gunman. Members ofthe [sic] public are warned not to approach “the dangerous individual” but to alert authorities by contact the emergency number 197.
Around 720 police officers and other security forces are searching for him, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said, and the public is being urged to alert police of any tips on his whereabouts….
The suspected gunman has been sentenced 27 times, mostly in France where he was born, but also in Germany, Switzerland as well as Luxembourg which are easily reached from Strasbourg.
His crimes range from violence to robbery, but not terrorism.
Chekatt was added to a watchlist of possible extremists while in prison in France in 2015 after he “called for practising a radical form of religion,” French deputy interior minister Laurent Nunez said on Wednesday.
He has since been monitored by France’s domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, which is occupied monitoring a large number of suspected extremists in France.