Suspect in racist gun attack near Paris transferred to psychiatric unit

Forensics intervene on a site of a petrol station where a man opened fire from his car, killing one person and injuring four others in Trappes, near Paris, on October 23, 2026. © Dimitar Dilkoff, AFP

A shooter suspected of killing one person and wounding five others on Friday in the town of Trappes, near Paris, has 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.

A man suspected of a gun attack in the Paris suburbs that killed one person and wounded five has left custody and been placed in a psychiatric unit for observation, French anti-terror prosecutors said Sunday.