The Strasbourg Christmas market shooting has fanned the flames of a debate about how to keep Europe safe, with MEPs from opposite sides of the aisle providing RT with radically different views about what must be done.The deadly attack in the northeast French city, which killed two people and left more than a dozen wounded, seems to have had a profound effect on EU parliamentarians - many of whom were present when their Strasbourg-based headquarters was put on lockdown following the shooting.Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou, a member of the European United Left-Nordic Green Left, said that his deep concern for those stuck on the streets of Strasbourg during the attack quickly turned into anger.The left-leaning MEP said that the parliament held a minute of silence for the victims of the attack - a practice that, according to him, was becoming far too frequent due to the regularity of similar attacks across Europe.He thinks what needs to be done is "changing policies to find the sources of terrorism and to attack the resources of terrorism. Asked about instructions given to police forces searching for Chekatt, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said the focus was on catching the suspect “as soon as possible,” no matter whether he was dead or alive, and “put an end to the manhunt”. Mr Griveaux also called on the “yellow vest” protesters not to take to the streets, as some members of the movement have planned a fifth round of demonstrations on Saturday across France to demand tax relief. The death toll in an attack on Strasbourg’s Christmas market rose to three on Thursday as police searched through eastern France and manned checkpoints on the German border in a hunt for the suspect. French police officers gather near the dead body of a man lying in the doorway of a building after a shootout with police in Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. The Paris prosecutor's office formally identified the man as Chekatt, a Strasbourg-born man with a long history of convictions for various crimes, including robberies. The Greek MEP also encouraged Europe to engage with "moderate Islam" and a stressed that stereotyping Muslims would only lead to more hate and violence.Arnautu urged France to expel all people currently on the country's terror watch list, noting that Chekatt had been flagged but was still not stopped from carrying out an attack.
An Italian journalist to the European Parliament who was wounded during a terrorist attack in Strasbourg, France, dies of his injuries, raising the death toll to four.