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Shooter Kills One, Wounds Four in Trappes and La Verrière, Yvelines, Paris Suburbs
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One killed and four injured as a speeding car fired on Trappes and La Verrière. Prosecution opened a terrorism investigation; authorities detained the alleged shooter.
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Shooting in Yvelines
A man opened fire from a vehicle at several people in the towns of Trappes and La Verrière in the Yvelines department, west of Paris, killing one person and wounding four on Friday morning around 10:30 a.m. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on X that security forces are fully mobilized, and he also said the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office is monitoring the situation. French prosecutors said they were investigating the shooting in Trappes as a suspected terrorist attack, and the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office announced it has opened an investigation into the case.
Police arrested the shooter in the nearby town of Coignières after the man opened fire in Trappes and neighbouring La Verrière around 10:30am (0830 GMT), and emergency services continued to respond in the area. The mayor of La Verrière, Nicolas Dainville, said three people were injured in his municipality, including a 12-year-old girl who received eight gunshot wounds and whose condition had been stabilized.
Prosecutors and local mayors
The Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office took charge of the case for "murder in relation to a terrorist act, with the aggravating circumstance that the acts were committed due to belonging—real or presumed—to a certain race, ethnicity, nation, or religion." Ali Rabeh, the mayor of Trappes, said on BFMTV that "He shot at random and wanted to slaughter people," and he specified that the deceased and at least one of the injured belong to racial minorities. Nicolas Dainville told BFMTV that the author seemed to have selected his victims by race, while he also said the detainee is named Kevin and is from Saint-Cyr, a town in the same department.
The mayor of La Verrière announced that the municipality will set up a psychological support unit in the coming hours to help those affected. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu wrote on X that the case was "very serious" and said "all resources of the security forces and the judiciary are fully mobilised".
Investigation and next steps
French prosecutors and the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office continued to treat the incident as a suspected terror attack, and the casualty toll remained not yet definite as emergency services worked at the scene. A police source said the man was arrested in the nearby town of Coignières after opening fire in Trappes and neighbouring La Verrière around 10:30am (0830 GMT), and the death toll could change as emergency services were still working. The Counterterrorism Prosecutor’s Office said it has opened an investigation into the shooting, and French emergency services said their teams were intervening while the number of casualties remained unofficial at this time.
The mayor of Trappes, Ali Rabeh, said the municipality would set up a psychological support unit in the coming hours, and he described the shooting as random and aimed at slaughter. The French government framed the response as a security and judicial mobilization, with Sébastien Lecornu posting on X that security forces are on full alert and that the National Public Prosecution Office for Counterterrorism is closely monitoring the situation.