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PARIS, May 16 (Xinhua) -- French police have detained a man related to the Strasbourg shooting last December in which five people were killed, a local media report said Wednesday.
The 32-year-old suspect was arrested in the eastern city of Alsace in an investigation into how the shooter, Cherif Chekatt, obtained his weapon, the BFMTV news channel reported.
On Tuesday, three men and two women aged 23 to 46 were arrested in Strasbourg and surrounding areas for helping the shooter to obtain the firearm used in his attack.
Chekatt, a 29-year-old Strasbourg native, opened fire several times and stabbed people at a Christmas market in Strasbourg in December 2018. He was killed by police after they had hunted him down two days after the attack.
