Paris shooting by Kevin was terrorist and racist act: Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron described a fatal suburban Paris shooting as an explicit terrorist and racist attack. The violent drive-by shooting occurred on Friday in Trappes, a suburb located on the outskirts of Paris. A gunman opened fire using an automatic weapon, targeting civilians at a petrol station, a medical center, and a children’s playground. […]
A shooting in a Paris suburb has been investigated as "terrorism" by authorities, with one person killed and five others wounded, three of whom are seriously injured. The attack, which lasted almost 15 minutes, involved several drive-by shootings in Trappes and La Verrière on Friday. The Interior Minister, Laurent Nuñez, described the incident as "clearly a terrorist crime" according to the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT).
The suspected attacker, a 39-year-old man, has been arrested. Witnesses reported that the gunman, driving a grey Renault Clio, fired shots at people he encountered in several neighborhoods, targeting a petrol station, a medical centre, and a playground. The mayor of Trappes, Ali Rabeh, suggested that the attack had a "racist, probably Islamophobic overtone," noting that the deceased victim was of African origin and one of the seriously injured was of North African descent.
The anti-terror prosecutor’s office stated that the incident appeared to be "murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise" and included "possession of a Category A weapon."
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