{"id":665,"date":"2026-10-23T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/suspect-arrested-after-paris-area-terrorist-crime-kills-1-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T17:30:44","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-paris-area-terrorist-crime-kills-1-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/suspect-arrested-after-paris-area-terrorist-crime-kills-1-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after Paris-area \u2018terrorist crime\u2019 kills 1 &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Suspect-arrested-after-Paris-area-\u2018terrorist-crime-kills-1-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 A gunman firing from a vehicle in a Paris suburb Friday killed one person and wounded several others, including a 12-year-old girl, in what French authorities suspect may have been a racially motivated attack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor\u2019s office took charge of the case and Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez spoke of a \u201cterrorist crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A suspect was arrested and taken into police custody, police said. Nu\u00f1ez said the shootings happened at three separate locations in the towns of Trappes and La Verri\u00e8re, near Paris, and that they took less than 15 minutes in total.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA deadly rampage took place this morning,\u201d he told reporters in Trappes. According to Nu\u00f1ez, the attacker fatally shot one person and wounded five others, three of them very seriously, with their lives in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez said the attack was considered a \u201cterrorist crime\u201d by prosecutors, with a possible racist motive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He praised the five officers from the anti-crime brigade who stopped the suspect.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\" readability=\"5.3013698630137\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Suspect-arrested-after-Paris-area-\u2018terrorist-crime-kills-1-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\" readability=\"29.599315068493\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get breaking National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI commend them for their swift response,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Aurore Berg\u00e9, the minister for gender equality and fight against discriminations, said the 12-year-old girl was very seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a racist motive is established, I hope that the whole nation will stand alongside the residents of Trappes, La Verri\u00e8re, and the victims. We cannot tolerate even the slightest racist remark in the French Republic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about reports that the suspect\u2019s home had been booby-trapped with gas cylinders, Nu\u00f1ez said: \u201cWe have heard those reports. The investigation will establish the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez said the suspect fired \u201cwhat appears to have been a military-grade weapon, or at least an automatic weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trappes Mayor Ali Rabeh said the gunman appeared to have fired relatively randomly, targeting passersby at several locations including a playground.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\" readability=\"0.43097014925373\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on World<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably one of the first attempted mass killings motivated by Islamophobia and racism,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cThis was a terrorist attack with racist, likely Islamophobic, overtones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rabeh previously said the person killed was of African origin, while one of those critically wounded was of North African origin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>France\u2019s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor\u2019s office said it opened a criminal investigation into several offenses, including \u201cmurder in connection with a terrorist enterprise with the aggravating circumstance that the act was committed on account of the victim\u2019s actual or perceived membership of a particular race, ethnic group, nationality or religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened as France braces for another day of protests against the high cost of living on Saturday, with major museums closing their doors and the government deploying a significantly larger security presence to prevent a repeat of last week\u2019s violent unrest, which shocked the country.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his \u201cdeep sorrow\u201d following the shooting and paid tribute to the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this terrible ordeal, the nation stands with them,\u201d he wrote on X.<br \/>___<br \/><em>Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 A gunman firing from a vehicle in a Paris suburb Friday killed one person and wounded several others, including a 12-year-old girl, in what French authorities suspect&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}