Trappes attack: the anti-terrorism prosecution requires the indictment and placement in pre-trial detention of Kévin T.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) requested this Thursday, October 29, the indictment of the suspect in the racist attack in Trappes and La Verrière (Yvelines), which left one dead and seven injured on Friday, October 23. The anti-terrorism public prosecutor, Olivier Christen, announced this during a press conference at the Paris judicial court this Thursday. Kévin T. will be presented to an anti-terrorism investigating judge before appearing before the liberty and detention judge.

The prosecution wishes to indict him in particular for “assassination” and “attempted assassinations”, “in relation to a terrorist enterprise”, with the aggravating circumstance that the facts were committed because of the true or supposed membership of the victims to an alleged race, ethnic group, nation or religion. He also requested his placement in pre-trial detention. On Monday, the prosecutor indicated that the suspect admitted the facts but denied their racist nature.

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.