Cherif Chekkat Will Be Buried In France

French authorities concluded the dispute over the fate of Strasbourg terror attack suspect, northeastern France, by announcing his burial on the French soil.

The information was confirmed by Akher Akhbar Al-Alsace Newspaper in its Saturday edition, quoting unnamed official sources, a decision that came after Algerian authorities refused to receive the corpse of Cherif Chekkat.

Cherif Chekkat’s family called upon the Algerian authorities to bury his corpse in Algeria, as his parents are Algerians, but this request was officially refused by the Algerian authorities, which used to reject the reception of the terrorists’ corpses.

The manner in which the accused of the Strasbourg attack was liquidated has left many questions, because the French police deliberately killed the suspect in a way that gave the impression that Paris was keen to destroy information that could have been revealed if he was arrested and brought to justice.

The father of Cherif Chekkat revealed that he had submitted a demand to the French police to mediate to convince his son to surrender, in order to be tried and avoid liquidation, in remarks to the French Channel 2 television, in which he said he informed the police district of Strasbourg, and his desire to mediate, but the French authorities did not respond.

French officials’ statements often caused anger of the Algerian authorities when they attribute the perpetrators of the terrorist acts to their countries of origin, as this happened with the former Algerian-born defendants, although they were born in France and taught in French schools and lived since their childhood in the French society.