{"id":49912,"date":"2018-12-13T11:26:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=49912"},"modified":"2018-12-13T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:27:05","slug":"gunman-kills-4-in-frances-christmas-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/gunman-kills-4-in-frances-christmas-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman kills 4 in France&#8217;s Christmas market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gunman killed at least four people and wounded 11 others near a Christmas market in the French border city of Strasbourg on Tuesday evening before being cornered by police.<\/p>\n<p>The motive was not immediately clear but, with France still on high alert after a wave of attacks commissioned or inspired by Islamic State militants since early 2015, the counter-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Some two hours after the attack, elite police cornered the suspect and shots were fired, a source close to the operation said. French media reported the assailant was holed up in a store on the Rue Epinal.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the gunman was known to security services, and the local prefecture said he was on an intelligence services watchlist.<\/p>\n<p>Castaner said France was raising the security threat level and would bolster the protection of Christmas markets elsewhere and strengthen border controls.<\/p>\n<p>People in the city&#8217;s Neudorf area and Etoile park were told to stay where they were as officers hunted the shooter on the ground and from the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gunman killed at least four people and wounded 11 others near a Christmas market in the French border city of Strasbourg on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49914,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49912\/revisions\/49914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}