Meeting Cherif, the lone wolf

Thanks to Arengo Bolognese blog for the original article.

Many of the previous islamic terror attacks were said to be attributable to “lone wolves”. In the narrative proposed by the mainstream media such was the so-called-French Cherif Chekatt: even if many were the shadows and suspects found in the young boy.

The author of the massacre at the Christmas market was already well known to the investigators. A 29-year-old common delinquent, well known to police since he was 13 years old, filed as a radicalized Islamic, dangerous and prone to terrorism. During his sixteen years of jihadist “career” he has collected twenty-seven convictions. So Cherif Chekatt, currently sought after throughout Europe, was anything but above suspicion.

According to the statements of the investigators, at the time of the massacre at the Christmas Market in Strasbourg, which took place on Tuesday 11 December, the gendarmes broke into his house. The apartment was empty but on the other hand they found a small military arsenal. We know that the same evening he arrived in the center of Strasbourg and started shooting at the unarmed citizens, intent on celebrating the Christmas Advent days: congratulations to the agents for a perfect timing!

We are meeting a chronic unemployed boy who had never integrated. There are millions of Muslims in the country who can freely express their beliefs but apparently Cheriff did not accept that the majority of his “fellow citizens” were Christian.

Currently, while his father, mother and two of his brothers are in custody, it turns out that many of his relatives frequent radical Islamic circles. To the many who today are asking why such an individual could run freely and hold so many weapons, the social workers and the French civil society respond that he was a moderate Muslim.

These people were not still totally convinced when he was listed by the authorities for Islamic radicalization. They had not even considered the dozens of reports against him, culminating in his participation at the Music Festival in Strasbourg, when he started shouting, “I want to kill a policeman.” A neighbor interviewed by France3 said: “Every morning, before going to work, I shook hands with him, we talked, he was one like many, an average moderate Muslim”.

What we asked ourselves from the first hours of the attack is how and where he learned such fighting techniques. The whole action, in its systematicy, possesses the connotation of the operation of a member of the special departments of the police or army. Meanwhile, since this afternoon from Cherud Chekatt’s neighborhood of Neudorf an action has taken place, involving 720 agents, to find him: it is believed that the fleeing terrorist may already be in Germany.

According to the testimony of the taxi driver taken hostage by the terrorist, thanks to which he escaped after the slaughter, the jihadist claimed to have “killed to avenge the muslim brothers killed in Syria”. According to the newspaper “Le Parisien”, constantly updated with new details, Chekatt did not kill the taxi driver because he professed “a practicing Muslim respectful of prayer”.

Afterall, to understand if a Muslim is strictly observant, a look at his face is enough. What the media call a mole or a stain on the forehead, is actually a callus. The Salāt, mandatory daily prayers, are five, they must be performed at dawn, at noon, in the afternoon, at sunset and at night, obviously directing to Mecca. During the genuflessions necessary for worship, the forehead touches the carpet, so over the years a callus develops. This prayer bump is called Zebība and is the first witness of the faithful adherence to the precepts of a good Muslim.

In the hope that the police could catch the killer, we fear that if he is in Germany or more generally in Northern Europe, he can find refuge in one of the many “Sharia No Go Zone”. These are Islamic extraterritorialities, tolerated by pro-European governments. In addition to these free zones, Chekatt will also be able to count on foreign figters returning from the Caliphate, which in those countries enjoy impunity, provided they accept home, work and attend free courses of de-radicalization and reintegration.

But if in recent days all public opinion is concentrated on the attack in Strasbourg, we must not forget the protest of the “Yellow Jackets”. To a strangely silent Macron we would ask: who knows if next Saturday they will return protesting in the streets?

LATEST UPDATE

The news of the killing of Cherif Chekatt arrived on Thursday, December 13 at 8 PM. The man had been fleeing for two days and while in Germany they were looking for him everywhere, indeed the terrorist had never left his neighborhood.

According to the official police report, a woman noticed him in the rue du Lazaret and called the police switchboard. The police sent three officers on the spot, while a helicopter flew over the area. Intercepted the jihadist, the policemen have ordered him to rise the hands, at that moment Chekatt extracted from his pocket the same gun used to perform the massacre and fired. The agents without waiting further were able to respond to the shooting and killed him, losing so the only opportunity to question him and know the truth.