Macron condemns ‘racist terrorist attack’ after deadly shooting near Paris

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Macron condemns ‘racist terrorist attack’ after deadly shooting near Paris

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A gunman killed one person and wounded five others in Trappes, southwest of Paris, in an attack French President Emmanuel Macron called racist and terrorist. Authorities suspect the victims were targeted because of their foreign origins; a 12-year-old girl was among those wounded.

A gunman firing from his car killed one person and wounded five – including a 12-year-old girl shot eight times – in the Paris suburbs on Friday, in what the French presidency condemned as a “racist terrorist attack”. French President Emmanuel Macron visited the working-class town of Trappes southwest of Paris, where a gunman opened fire earlier in the day in an attack suspected of having targeted people of foreign origin. This was a “racist, terrorist attack”, the Elysee presidential palace...

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