‘Terrorist crime’: Paris suburb shooting kills one, injures four

One person was killed and four others were seriously injured in a shooting at three locations in the Paris suburbs of Trappes and La Verriere on Friday, with French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez describing the incident as a “clearly a terrorist crime”.The suspected gunman was arrested and taken into police custody, while France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office took over the investigation to examine possible terrorist and racial motives.Nunez said the suspect fired “what appears to have been a military-grade weapon, or at least an automatic weapon”.Trappes Mayor Ali Rabeh told BFM TV that the gunman appeared to have fired relatively randomly, targeting passers-by."It is a miracle that there were not more victims,” he said, adding that the suspect had opened fire at several locations, including a playground.Rabeh said the person killed was of African origin, while one of those critically wounded was of North African origin.France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office said it had opened a criminal investigation into several offences, including “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise with the aggravating circumstance that the act was committed on account of the victim's actual or perceived membership of a particular race, ethnic group, nationality or religion.”The shooting comes as France prepares for another day of protests against the high cost of living on Saturday. Major museums have closed their doors, while the government has deployed significantly more security personnel to prevent a repeat of the violent unrest that shocked the country last week.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.