Daily Mail: First image is revealed of fugitive 'Christmas market gunman' as Thai tourist among three people killed is identified and French police reveal murderer shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as he opened fire
* Three people killed and 13 injured when gunman opened fire at Strasbourg Christmas Market last night
* Cherif Chekatt, 29, pictured in French media today, was on the security services' 'state threat' watchlist
* Chekatt, from Strasbourg, has a lengthy criminal record and was 'known in local Islamist extremist circles'
* Gunman was injured in exchange of fire with soldiers, but hijacked a taxi and managed to flee the scene
* President Macron raised the country's terror level to its highest state as anti-terror police probed the attack
The 29-year-old gunman who shot and killed at least three people and injured 13 others at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, northeastern France last night cried 'Allahu Akbar' as he opened fire, prosecutors say.
Cherif Chekatt has been pictured in local media today, as police revealed his criminal record includes 25 court convictions, including many for armed robbery, and that he had been listed as a 'threat to the state' by the French security services.
Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said Strasbourg-born Chekatt had been armed with a handgun and a knife, adding: 'Terrorism has hit our country again.'
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