Racist attack in Yvelines: the suspect, Kévin T., indicted by an anti-terrorism judge

The assailant indicted. Kévin T., the suspect in the racist attack in Yvelines, was indicted by an anti-terrorism judge, franceinfo learned from a source close to the case. The suspect admitted to being the author of the racist attack in Trappes on Friday, to having premeditated his act and admitted to having "specifically" targeted people "of the Muslim, African or North African type" and chosen the location of his action, because "Trappes is 'a den of Islamists'", announced Olivier Christen, prosecutor of the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat), during a press conference on Thursday October 29. However, he denies "any terrorist intention". Thirty stickers “Long live France, RN, proud to be French”, which the suspect claims to have designed himself, were also found at the home of Kévin T., detailed the magistrate. Placement in pre-trial detention was requested by the Pnat.

Kévin T. had been arrested three days before the attack. The suspect had hit a black man before being arrested by police, franceinfo learned on Thursday from a source close to the investigation, confirming information from Mediapart. Released after his arrest, the 39-year-old man was to be questioned at the Levallois-Perret police station on the same day of the racist attack in Yvelines.

Three injured still hospitalized. Seven people were injured in the attack, four of them seriously. Three of them are still hospitalized, the prosecutor of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday. Pengo Bossio Wangi, a 26-year-old Frenchman from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was killed.

Emmanuel Macron accuses the RN of having installed a racist climate that could have favored the attack. He calls for a “start” after the “racist terrorist” attack in Trappes. Asked on the HugoDécrypte YouTube channel about those responsible for a sometimes racist climate which may have favored this attack, the head of state estimated that there were "political movements which allowed this to take hold on the extreme right", citing the RN and "those close to them". He also mentioned “a form of disinhibition of speech”, “an atmosphere of racism” and “a disinhibition of violence”.