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Join today<\/a><\/p>\n \n Already a member? A gunman firing from a vehicle in a Paris<\/a> suburb killed one person and wounded several others, including a 12-year-old girl, in what French authorities suspect may have been a racially motivated attack.<\/p>\n France<\/a>\u2019s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor\u2019s office took charge of the case and Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez described it as a \u201cterrorist crime.\u201d<\/p>\n A suspect was arrested and taken into police custody, police said. Nu\u00f1ez said the shootings happened at three separate locations in the towns of Trappes and La Verri\u00e8re, near Paris, and that they took less than 15 minutes in total.<\/p>\n \u201cA deadly rampage took place this morning,” he told reporters in Trappes. According to Nu\u00f1ez, the attacker fatally shot one person and wounded five others, three of them very seriously, with their lives in danger.<\/p>\n Nu\u00f1ez said the attack was considered a \u201cterrorist crime\u201d by prosecutors, with a possible racist motive.<\/p>\n He praised the five officers from the anti-crime brigade who stopped the suspect.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cI commend them for their swift response,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Aurore Berg\u00e9, the minister for gender equality and fight against discrimination, said the 12-year-old girl was very seriously injured.<\/p>\n “If a racist motive is established, I hope that the whole nation will stand alongside the residents of Trappes, La Verri\u00e8re, and the victims. We cannot tolerate even the slightest racist remark in the French Republic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Asked about reports that the suspect’s home had been booby-trapped with gas cylinders, Nu\u00f1ez said: \u201cWe have heard those reports. The investigation will establish the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n Nu\u00f1ez said the suspect fired “what appears to have been a military-grade weapon, or at least an automatic weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n Trappes Mayor Ali Rabeh said the gunman appeared to have fired relatively randomly, targeting passersby at several locations including a playground.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is probably one of the first attempted mass killings motivated by Islamophobia and racism,\u201d he told reporters. \u201dThis was a terrorist attack with racist, likely Islamophobic, overtones.\u201d<\/p>\n Rabeh previously said the person killed was of African origin, while one of those critically wounded was of North African origin.<\/p>\n France\u2019s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor\u2019s office said it opened a criminal investigation into several offenses, including \u201cmurder in connection with a terrorist enterprise with the aggravating circumstance that the act was committed on account of the victim\u2019s actual or perceived membership of a particular race, ethnic group, nationality or religion.\u201d<\/p>\n The shooting happened as France braces for another day of protests against the high cost of living<\/a> on Saturday, with major museums closing their doors and the government deploying a significantly larger security presence to prevent a repeat of last week\u2019s violent unrest<\/a> which shocked the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[84,1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-business","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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A \u200csuspect has been arrested \u2060near the town of Trappes, French broadcaster BFM reported. (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n![\"French](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-23T122345Z_1677841562_RC209OA9ZGTG_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-SECURITY-SHOOTING.JPG\")
French police work at the scene after a drive-by shooting that killed one person and injured several others in Trappes, in the Yvelines area (Reuters)<\/p>\n