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Strasbourg gunman was on French intelligence watchlist: prefecture

Europe Materials 12 December 2018 03:13 (UTC +04:00)

A gunman who shot dead at least two people in the center of the French city of Strasbourg was known to France’s internal security services as a suspected security risk, the local police prefecture said in a statement, Trend reports citing Reuters.

Some 26,000 individuals suspected of posing a security risk to France are on the Fiche S watch list, of whom about 10,000 are believed to have been radicalized, sometimes in Salafist mosques, online or abroad.

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