Three more people close to the attacker Chérif Chekatt, who was shot dead by police on Thursday, were still being held, it said. But his parents and two of his brothers were freed “due to the lack of incriminating evidence at this stage”, the prosecutor’s office added. More than 700 French security forces had been hunting for 29-year-old Chekatt since Tuesday night’s bloodshed, in which four people died. In an interview broadcast on Saturday evening, a man identified as Cherif Chekatt’s father said his son had become a follower of Isis. “He would say Daesh is fighting for a just cause,” the man, named as Abdelkrim Chekatt, told France 2 television, using the Arabic acronym for Isis.

Source: The Guardian December 16, 2018 02:15 UTC