{"id":3212,"date":"2026-10-24T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2026-10-24T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:03:46","slug":"one-killed-five-injured-in-suspected-racist-shooting-near-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"One killed, five injured in suspected racist shooting near Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A gunman killed one person and wounded \u200cfive others, including a 12-year-old girl, in a shooting in a Paris suburb that French President Emmanuel Macron described as a \u201cterrorist and racist\u201d attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened today is, I am telling you, a turning point, because it is the first \u200btime we have had a terrorist act that was planned to kill our compatriots, our \u200bchildren, based on the colour of their skin or their religion,\u201d Macron told \u2060reporters.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened earlier on Friday when the gunman fired an automatic weapon at a petrol station, \u200ba medical centre and a children\u2019s playground in Trappes, on the Paris outskirts.<\/p>\n

Officials said a 39-year-old suspect, \u200bwhom they named as Kevin T, had been arrested. His family surname was not given, as is common practice in such criminal inquiries in France.<\/p>\n

The shooting comes at a moment of particular tension in France, after nationwide protests turned violent<\/a> \u200blast Saturday and before further demonstrations this coming weekend.<\/p>\n

Some far-right politicians have blamed immigration for looting and \u200bvandalism in several French cities on October 17.<\/p>\n

Macron said the gunman had deliberately chosen not to fire \u200cupon \u2060some people due to their skin colour and appearance.<\/p>\n

The anti-terrorism prosecutor\u2019s office, known as PNAT, formally opened an investigation into the shooting.<\/p>\n

PNAT can take over any criminal investigation<\/a> it believes meets the criteria for terrorism, including violence inspired by far-right ideas. Terrorism sentences are tougher, and counter-terrorism forces have greater investigative powers.<\/p>\n

Broadcaster BFM \u200bsaid the wounded girl \u200bhad been hit eight \u2060times and was in serious condition.<\/p>\n

Trappes Mayor Ali Rabeh, whose parents came from Morocco, said the shooting was \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cIslamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people targeted today could just as easily \u200bhave been my mother, my brothers or my sisters-in-law,\u201d said Rabeh.<\/p>\n

Rabeh called \u200bfor a collective \u2060condemnation of rhetoric that \u201cideologically arms those capable of carrying out such acts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicolas Dainville, the mayor of nearby La Verriere, said the suspect was \u201cof a European type.\u201d Rabeh said two of the victims were of African \u2060and North \u200bAfrican origin, respectively, and did not provide details about the \u200bbackgrounds of the other victims.<\/p>\n

Video images showed the suspect\u2019s car riddled with bullets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A gunman killed one person and wounded \u200cfive others, including a 12-year-old girl, in a shooting in a Paris suburb that French President Emmanuel Macron described as a \u201cterrorist and racist\u201d attack. \u201cWhat happened today is, I am telling you, a turning point, because it is the first \u200btime we have had a terrorist act that was planned to kill our compatriots, our \u200bchildren, based on the colour of their skin or their religion,\u201d Macron told \u2060reporters. The shooting happened earlier on Friday when the gunman fired an automatic weapon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}