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French prosecutor seeks pretrial detention for suspect in shooting near Paris
Authorities say the suspect targeted people he believed were Muslim or African, and investigators found far-right materials and a booby-trapped apartment.
- A 39-year-old French national identified as Kevin killed 26-year-old Black French national Pengo Bossio Wangi on Friday in Trappes and neighboring Verri, a Paris suburb. The attack wounded seven others, including an 11-year-old.
- National counterterrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen said the suspect admitted to 'specifically targeting' people he believed to be Muslim or from Africa. Authorities opened a judicial investigation into murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
- Investigators found Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf and National Rally stickers in the suspect's possession. Christen added the suspect 'now acknowledged that the acts were premeditated,' having purchased firearm parts last month.
- Christen asked that the suspect be held in pretrial detention on Thursday. Four victims remain seriously wounded, including one person who stayed in life-threatening condition.
- A search of the suspect's car uncovered a Sten-type submachine gun, while his apartment was booby-trapped with gas cylinders and electrical wires. Christen noted the suspect has a history of psychiatric problems and drug addiction.
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The suspect in last week's terrorist attack in the Paris suburb of Trappes has admitted to having a racist and Islamophobic motive. Kevin T. says he chose Trappes because it is allegedly a "refuge for Islamists." He claims to have no remorse. "He admits that he specifically targeted 'Muslims and people of African or North African descent'," the public prosecutor announced today. T. also reportedly admitted during his interrogation that he had p…
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After a shooting attack last Friday, a 39-year-old is being investigated for murder and attempted murder with a terrorist-related and racist component
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