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Overview
- A mobile shooting spree on Friday, Oct. 23, across roughly 12 kilometres in Trappes killed a 26-year-old man and wounded five other passersby, with investigators documenting eight crime scenes and at least 128 rounds fired.
- Police arrested the suspect, identified as Kévin T., about 20 minutes after the first shots in Coignières and placed him in garde à vue; his custody was briefly paused for a psychiatric exam and resumed on Oct. 26 after a psychiatrist found no signs of acute decompensation.
- The Parquet national antiterroriste has opened an inquiry for assassination and attempted assassinations linked to a terrorist enterprise with a racist aggravating circumstance, and the suspect accepts committing the acts while contesting their racist character.
- Investigators have seized a Sten-type submachine gun and a tear-gas device from the vehicle and say the suspect’s apartment was booby-trapped with gas bottles wired to a timer, details prosecutors cite as evidence of preparation.
- Some reporting from limited sources describes ideological material at the suspect’s home and a longer-term turn to the extreme right, but prosecutors have denied earlier claims about political leaflets and say key findings remain under verification, a development that will shape charges and community response.