PARIS (AP) — A gunman firing from a vehicle in a Paris suburb Friday 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.
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France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s office took charge of the case and Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez spoke of a “terrorist crime.”
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A suspect was arrested and taken into police custody, police said.
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Nuñez said the shootings happened at three separate locations in the towns of Trappes and La Verrière, near Paris, and that they took less than 15 minutes in total.
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“A deadly rampage took place this morning,” he told reporters in Trappes.
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According to Nuñez, the attacker fatally shot one person and wounded five others, three of them very seriously, with their lives in danger.
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Nuñez said the attack was considered a “terrorist crime” by prosecutors, with a possible racist motive.
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He praised the five officers from the anti-crime brigade who stopped the suspect.
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“I commend them for their swift response,” he said.
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Aurore Bergé, the minister for gender equality and fight against discriminations, said the 12-year-old girl was very seriously injured.
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“If a racist motive is established, I hope that the whole nation will stand alongside the residents of Trappes, La Verrière, and the victims.
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We cannot tolerate even the slightest racist remark in the French Republic,” she said.
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Asked about reports that the suspect’s home had been booby-trapped with gas cylinders, Nuñez said: “We have heard those reports.
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The investigation will establish the facts.”
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Nuñez said the suspect fired “what appears to have been a military-grade weapon, or at least an automatic weapon.”
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Trappes Mayor Ali Rabeh said the gunman appeared to have fired relatively randomly, targeting passersby at several locations including a playground.
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“This is probably one of the first attempted mass killings motivated by Islamophobia and racism,” he told reporters.
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Rabeh previously said the person killed was of African origin, while one of those critically wounded was of North African origin.
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France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s office said it opened a criminal investigation into several offenses, including “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise with the aggravating circumstance that the act was committed on account of the victim’s actual or perceived membership of a particular race, ethnic group, nationality or religion.”
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The shooting happened as France braces for another day of protests against the high cost of living on Saturday, with major museums closing their doors and the government deploying a significantly larger security presence to prevent a repeat of last week’s violent unrest, which shocked the country.
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French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his “deep sorrow” following the shooting and paid tribute to the victims.
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“In this terrible ordeal, the nation stands with them,” he wrote on X.
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Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.
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