Person

Ali Rabeh

1. Drive-by shooting in Trappes near Paris kills one and wounds five; Macron calls it a 'racist terrorist attack'

   A gunman fired at passers-by from a car for about 15 minutes in Trappes and neighbouring La Verrière, south-west of Paris, on Friday, Oct 23, killing one person and wounding five, three of them seriously, including a 12-year-old girl shot eight times. The suspect, named by French media as 39-year-old Kevin T, was arrested; France's national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) said the case appeared to be murder linked to a terrorist enterprise and that he had four prior records that had been automatically erased. Macron said at the scene it was a 'racist terrorist attack' in which targets were chosen for their skin colour or religion, calling it a turning point for the Republic, while Trappes mayor Ali Rabeh said it was 'objectively a racist attack, possibly Islamophobic'.

   Oct 24, 2026 Morning