next Image 1 of 2prev Image 2 of 2The man described as the father of the 29-year-old suspect in this week's deadly Christmas market attack in Strasbourg says his son subscribed to the beliefs of the Islamic State group. Chekatt said he had seen his son, Cherif Chekatt, three days before the attack but couldn't contact him while he was on the run. "He'd say, for example, that Daesh, fights for the just cause and all that," the red-bearded father said, using the common term in France and elsewhere for the Islamic State group. Abdelkrim Chekatt, a French-Algerian, said he'd tried in the past to dissuade his son from backing the Islamic State, saying, "You don't see the atrocities they commit." Shortly after Chekatt's death, the Islamic State group's Amaq news agency claimed he was a "soldier" of the group.

Source: Fox News December 16, 2018 02:37 UTC