Trappes shooting: mayor raises possibility of Islamist attack
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Telquel
A shooting left at least one person dead and four injured on Friday in a street in Trappes, in the Yvelines, before a suspect was arrested. The town’s mayor described it as probably an Islamist-motivated and racist attack, according to local media citing police and municipal authorities.
The mayor of Trappes raised the possibility of an Islamist-motivated attack after the shooting that left one person dead and four injured in the Yvelines town, in the Paris region, TelQuel reports. A suspect was arrested, according to initial information released by police.
The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office opened an investigation and French President Emmanuel Macron denounced a racist terrorist attack. The shooting took place on Friday, 23 October 2026.
