At least one person was killed and four people were injured in a shooting near Paris that may have been motivated by Islamophobic hatred, French officials say.
\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron called the shooting a racist terror attack, saying people were targeted due to their religion and the color of their skin.
\n\n“The investigations are ongoing, but it is clearly a terrorist crime. It is an extremely serious act,” Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told reporters from the Yvelines district, about 20 miles west of Paris, where the attack took place.
\n\nOfficials said the 39-year-old suspect, who has not been named, drove through the town of Trappes, where he fired an automatic weapon at a petrol station, a medical centre and a children’s playground.
\n\nAli Rabeh, the mayor of Trappes, said it was “objectively a racist attack, probably Islamophobic.” The official, whose parents came from Morocco, added: “The people targeted today could just as easily have been my mother, my brothers or my sisters-in-law.”
\n\nOne person has been arrested and charged on four counts, including murder and possession of a firearm, with the “aggravating circumstance that the acts were committed on the basis of actual or supposed membership in a particular…
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