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Cherif Chekatt is wanted for the shooting in Strasbourg on Tuesday that left 3 dead and 12 people injured, 6 critically. Photo: French government 

The man sought by French and German police following the fatal shooting in Strasbourg on Tuesday is a suspect in a burglary in Luxembourg that took place in 2012. DNA matching that of suspect Cherif Chekatt was found at the crime scene six years ago.

Additional police have been asked to patrol the streets of Luxembourg and the authorities are in permanent contact with the colleagues in France, but prime minister Xavier Bettel has said there is no reason to raise the terror alert in the grand duchy from 2 on a scale of 4.

French investigators say Chekatt is one of around 12,000 young men they call “gangster-jihadists”--criminals who, according to The Guardian, graduate from burglary, drug dealing and robbery to terrorism. Born in Strasbourg in 1989, he is said to have been radicalised during a spell in prison between 2013 and 2015.