Macron Says Paris Suburb Shooting that Killed One Person Was Terrorist and Racist Act
Investigators found extremist material and booby-trapped explosives as prosecutors examine whether the attack was planned as racist violence.
- On Sunday, France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office suspended police custody of 39-year-old suspect Kevin T., transferring him to a psychiatric unit for a 48-hour observation period to assess his fitness for further interrogation.
- The suspect opened fire from a vehicle on Friday, October 23, in Trappes and La Verrière, killing 26-year-old Pengo Bossio Wangi and wounding five others, including a 12-year-old girl, before police arrested him in nearby Coignières.
- Investigators discovered a submachine gun, tear gas, and booby-trapped gas cylinders at the suspect's home, alongside a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf; he reportedly told police he sought to "avenge" shops looted on October 17.
- President Emmanuel Macron condemned the shooting as a "racist terrorist attack," describing it as a "turning point" for the Republic, while hundreds gathered in Trappes on Saturday to pay tribute to the victims and demand justice.
- Lawyer Yassine Bouzrou, representing the family of Bossio Wangi, called the decision to end formal detention "very rare" and warned of a "worrying pattern" where far-right perpetrators' mental state is questioned to deflect from ideological motives.
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The interrogation of the suspect of the racist motive attack in France, under treatment for his schizophrenia, was interrupted.
The attacker, who killed a 26-year-old young man of African origin in France on Friday and injured four other people, including a little girl, denied that he acted on racial grounds, indicated Monday the French justice, quoted by AFP. He was again placed in preventive detention during the afternoon of Monday, after his detention had been interrupted due to psychiatric reasons.
Paris, 26 Oct (EFE).- The suspect of the attack that last Friday could have committed a massacre and got away with a fatal victim in Trappes, on the outskirts of Paris, left on Monday the hospital to which he was transferred after the experts found that he has no mental pathology incompatible with his arrest.The prosecutor [...] The entry The suspect of the Trappes attack leaves the hospital after a mental pathology was ruled out was first publi…
In Trappes, a man was killed and several people injured by a racist shooter.
The suspect in a deadly shooting in two Paris suburbs has denied that the act was racially motivated. One person was killed and five were injured in Friday's shooting. President Emmanuel Macron previously spoke of a racist act of terror and said that the shooter selected his victims based on religion and skin color.
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The Frontier PostFrench shooting suspect denies racist motive: prosecutors
A man accused of a gun attack near Paris states his actions were not racially motivated. Prosecutors confirm he admits to the acts but disputes the racist nature of the crimes.
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