PARIS — France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor is investigating a shooting near Paris which killed at least one person Friday morning as a possible act of hate-motivated terror. The office is investigating charges including murder and attempted murder “in connection with a terrorist enterprise, where the acts were committed on the basis of actual or perceived membership of a specific race, ethnicity, nation or religion.” Earlier in the day, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on X that at least one person had been killed and four others injured in a shooting in Trappes, a suburb west of Paris with a lower socioeconomic status and a large Muslim community. A 12-year-old was among those injured, the mayor of nearby town La Verrière told reporters.
During this terrible ordeal, the nation stands with them,” President Emmanuel Macron said on social media. Marine Le Pen, the front-running far-right candidate for next year’s presidential election slammed the killing as “a barbaric act whose motives must be determined, and of which those responsible must be severely punished.”
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