One person was killed and at least four others were injured in a shooting in the Yvelines district west of Paris, and a suspect has been arrested, French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Friday.Ali Rabeh, the mayor of the Yvelines town of Trappes, told BFMTV that a man had fired shoots from his car and “appeared to be firing at random and seemed intent on carrying out a massacre”.He said one of those injured was a 12-year-old girl, adding that the man who fired the shots lived in a near-by town. There was no information so far about his motives, he said.Police officers at the scene of a shooting where a man opened fire from his car, killing one person and injuring four others in Trappes, a Paris suburb. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images Lecornu wrote on X that security forces had been fully mobilised. READ MORE“The national antiterrorism prosecutor’s office has announced that it is monitoring the situation,” he added.Representatives for the prosecutor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the prefecture declined to comment. The antiterrorism prosecutor’s office confirmed it was monitoring the case. – Reuters– This is a developing story
Anti-terror police investigate drive-by shooting near Paris which killed one and injured four
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