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==2001 attacks== | ==2001 attacks== | ||
In 2001 Cheurfi shot at police officers during a car chase, severely injuring one.<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]</ref> Days later he grabbed a second officer's gun while he was in custody and shot and wounded that officer.<ref name="Indy"/> Following a 2003 trial he was sentenced to 20 years but was subsequently released.<ref name="Indy"/> | In 2001 Cheurfi shot at police officers during a car chase, severely injuring one.<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> Days later he grabbed a second officer's gun while he was in custody and shot and wounded that officer.<ref name="Indy"/> Following a 2003 trial he was sentenced to 20 years but was subsequently released.<ref name="Indy"/> | ||
This attack was linked at the time to organised 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> | |||
==Background== | |||
Cheurfi did not appear to become radicalised during his time in prison.<ref name="Telegraph"/> Lawyer Jean-Laurent Panier, who represented Cheurfi at a theft trial, said shortly after the 2017 attack that Cheurfi was "psychologically fragile" and a naive and unsuccessful criminal, adding "I never got a sense that this was someone who would be radicalised."<ref name="Telegraph"/> | |||
Cheurfi lived an isolated existence with few or no friends,<ref name="Telegraph"/> and stayed with his parents in Chelles, Paris.<ref name="Indy"/> | |||
==Radicalisation== | |||
==2017 attack== | ==2017 attack== | ||
Revision as of 13:52, 22 April 2017
Karim Cheurfi is a terrorist who shot police officers in three separate attacks in France. Motivated by Islamic extremism, Cheurfi wounded four officers and killed one. He was himself shot dead during his final attack, on April 20, 2017.
2001 attacks
In 2001 Cheurfi shot at police officers during a car chase, severely injuring one.[1] Days later he grabbed a second officer's gun while he was in custody and shot and wounded that officer.[1] Following a 2003 trial he was sentenced to 20 years but was subsequently released.[1]
This attack was linked at the time to organised crime rather than terror.[2]
Background
Cheurfi did not appear to become radicalised during his time in prison.[2] Lawyer Jean-Laurent Panier, who represented Cheurfi at a theft trial, said shortly after the 2017 attack that Cheurfi was "psychologically fragile" and a naive and unsuccessful criminal, adding "I never got a sense that this was someone who would be radicalised."[2]
Cheurfi lived an isolated existence with few or no friends,[2] and stayed with his parents in Chelles, Paris.[1]
Radicalisation
2017 attack
On April 20, 2017 Cheurfi drove a car behind a marked police van which was parked outside a Marks & Spencers on the Champs-Elysees.[1] He opened fire with an AK-47, killing one officer; two others were injured and a German lady's foot was also injured.[1] Police returned fire and killed the 39-year-old attacker.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Paris attack: Champs-Elysees suspect was jailed for shooting police and subject of terror investigation The Independent, April 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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