France - The victim of Friday's terrorist attack in the Yvelines, near Trappes, south west of Paris, was the MMA fighter:
PENGO BOSSIO WANGI
He was 26, was shot and killed.
He ws amateur MMA fighter, and trained in Aubervilliers, north of Paris, where he was loved and respected.
A 12-year-old girl was also struck by eight bullets and has been hospitalised.
The deails, according to Agence France Presse: On Friday morning, a man opened fire in the street, killing one person and wounding at least four others, including a 12-year-old child.
The attack also left five people injured.
The suspect is a man believed to have targeted individuals with an immigrant background. According to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (PNAT)—which took charge of the case—he had also rigged his apartment in Plaisir (located a few kilometers from the towns of Trappes and La Verrière, where the attack took place) with three gas canisters and electrical wires connected to a timer.
The mayor of the city of Trappes, Ali Rabeh, denounced a “racist terrorist attack”: it was "objectively an attack, with racist overtones, probably Islamophobic," he said.
“This is likely one of the first—an initial attempt at a mass crime with Islamophobic and racist overtones,” the official added.
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Emmanuel Macron visited the scene that evening. He also recognised it was a “racist terrorist attack.”
The man has been arrested and taken into police custody, as has a member of his immediate family, the PNAT announced.
The PNAT has announced the opening of an investigation into "murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, with the aggravating circumstance that the acts were committed on the basis of actual or perceived membership in a specific race, ethnicity, nation, or religion."
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Sunday update:
A shooter suspected of the killing Wangi and wounding these five others on Friday near Trappes, has been put in custudy then had his police custody suspended for a 48-hour psychiatric observation, anti-terror prosecutors said Sunday.
The 39-year-old man is believed to have had racist motivations behind the gun attack as most of the victims had foreign origins.
Partly identified as Kevin T., he was arrested Friday in possession of a submachine gun and tear-gas grenades in his car, shortly after the victims were shot as a vehicle drove through the working-class town of Trappes and neighbouring La Verrière.
