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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.
Authorities are investigating the rare attack on a Christian church; the assailants remain unidentified and at large.
Adding to the tensions, France is reeling from a shooting that authorities are investigating as a potentially racist and Islamophobic terrorist attack. One person was killed and five others wounded in the Paris suburbs of Trappes and La Verrière, including a 12-year-old girl who was shot eight times. Police arrested the suspected gunman, and investigators reportedly found three gas cylinders rigged to a timer in his apartment, as well as a submachine gun in his car. The French president has condemned the attack, while the mayor of Saint-Denis has denounced the impact of hate speech.
As media outlets broadcast news updates, unseen handlers were relaying the information directly to the shooters through encrypted Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) messaging applications, police sources said
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...
Gunmen killed at least seven people and wounded dozens at a church in southern Jordan on Friday, authorities said, with the king vowing retaliation for the rare attack on Christians in the majority Sunni Muslim kingdom. Assailants stormed the compound of a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hammoud in Karak governorate and opened fire, authorities said. The gunmen got out of a vehicle and started shooting during a funeral procession, the public security directorate said in a statement,...
Suspected Palestinian militants wounded five Israelis on Friday before two gunmen were killed in a prolonged shoot-out, leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to order the closure of the West Bank days before Israeli elections. Netanyahu, facing a tight race for a new term in Tuesday’s election, said that Israeli troops prevented what could have been a major attack, with the assailants allegedly carrying a large quantity of ammunition in their vehicle. An Agence France-Presse journalist who...
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Protesters in New York City are demanding the abolition of ICE after officers shot Oscar Belgal in the Bronx.
An ICE agent involved in the Oct 8 shooting in New York was also filmed during a controversial arrest in Minneapolis.
Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old man, survived the shooting and is now being held at a detention facility outside of New York, officials said.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani repeats his call for the abolishment of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement enforcement agency after an officer shot and wounded a man in front of a child on Thursday in the Bronx. Mamdani says ICE makes the city "less safe." ICE says the shooting happened as part of a targeted operation. The child was unharmed, the victim is in stable condition at a local hosptial. (Source: Bloomberg)
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he will ask US President Donald Trump to remove ICE from the city after federal immigration agents on Thursday shot a man in a vehicle with his five-year-old child during an attempted arrest. The 28-year-old survived and is being treated at hospital.
The mayor of New York expressed outrage at the shooting which the Department of Homeland Security said happened during the arrest of a "criminal illegal alien".
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says it was conducting enforcement activity.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he would ask US President Donald Trump to remove federal immigration agents from the city as tensions flared over the latest shooting involving ICE. The New York Police Department said a man had been shot around 4pm in the Marble Hill neighbourhood of the Bronx during an altercation with federal agents. Mamdani and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) later confirmed that the shooting occurred during an operation of Immigration and Customs...