French media have identified a French citizen as the dead suspect after his attack on a police patrol on the Champs Elysées which saw one police officer killed and two others injured. A so-called ‘suspected Islamist' went on a rampage in Paris Thursday evening, the third terror attack in France in 2017 so far. Local media has identified 39-year-old Karim Cheurfi as the man who was shot dead by police after a running attack against officers with a Kalashnikov-style rifle. The gunman who opened fire on a police vehicle on the Champs-Elysees in Paris Thursday night has been identified as an ISIS fighter in a claim of responsibility for the attack by the so-called Islamic State. The shooting left one police officer dead and two others wounded. Karim Cheurfi, 39, was shot dead by police at the scene, L'Express reports. Cheurfi was born in Livry-Gargan and lived in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, the newspaper reports. He was called Abu Yusuf al-Baljiki in a statement from ISIS. His name has also been spelled Abu Youssef and al-Beljiki in some reports. French newspaper Le Monde reported that whilst the identity has not yet been officially confirmed, the individual named is a native of the riot-hit migrant suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis and was considered by the security services as an "excessively dangerous" individual.
