Editing Karim Cheurfi (section)

==2001 attacks==
In 2001 Cheurfi crashed a stolen car, shooting and injuring a police officer and his brother who gave chase, severely injuring both.<ref name="TheLocal"/> Days later he grabbed a second officer's gun while he was in custody and shot and wounded that officer.<ref name="Indy">[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attack-isis-terror-champs-elysees-gunman-accomplice-police-manhunt-belgian-karim-cheurfi-a7694266.html Paris attack: Champs-Elysees suspect was jailed for shooting police and subject of terror investigation] ''The Independent'', April 2017</ref> Following a 2003 trial, he was sentenced to 20 years,<ref name="Indy"/> reduced on appeal to 15 years, for the three attempted murders.<ref name="TheLocal"/> He received parole in 2013.<ref name="TheLocal"/>

These crimes were linked at the time to organized crime rather than terror.<ref name="Telegraph">[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/20/paris-attack-suspect/ Paris attack: who is Karim Cheurfi, the gunman who lived with his mother and was 'let go' by French authorities in February?], ''The Telegraph'', April 2017</ref> Three months after release he committed an armed robbery, being captured after a car chase; in July 2014 he received a sentence of four years with two suspended <ref name="TheLocal"/>and was released in October 2015.<ref name="BBC"/>