Attack in Yvelines: the attacker, Kevin T., indicted by an anti-terrorism judge

The suspect in the racist attack in Trappes and La Verrière (Yvelines), which left one dead and seven injured on Friday October 23, was indicted this Thursday October 29 by an anti-terrorism investigating judge, reports a source close to the case to AFP.

Earlier in the day, the anti-terrorism public prosecutor, Olivier Christen, requested his placement in pre-trial detention. It is now up to the judge of freedoms and detention to rule on this request.

Kévin T. is being prosecuted for “assassination” and “attempted assassinations”, “in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, with the aggravating circumstance that the facts were committed because of the victims’ true or supposed membership of an alleged race, ethnic group, nation or religion.

On Friday October 23, around 10:30 a.m., Kévin T. opened fire in bursts from his car, a gray Clio, first near a bus stop at Place Van Gogh in Trappes, then at La Verrière. He killed Pengo Bossio Wangi, a 26-year-old black Frenchman, and injured seven people, including several of African or North African origin. Among them is a 12-year-old girl, whose vital prognosis is no longer in jeopardy.

According to the Pnat, in a first communication, he fired 128 cartridges at eight different locations with a category A automatic weapon. He was arrested shortly after by the anti-crime brigade in Coignières, on the RN10. Before taking action, he had trapped his apartment in Plaisir with gas bottles connected by electric wires to a timer.

Unknown to the intelligence services, Kévin T. had been convicted four times, the last time in 2012. Analyzes revealed “the presence of cannabis and cocaine in his blood” at the time of the attack. According to a source close to the AFP investigation, he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was undergoing treatment.