“His entire murderous journey gives him pleasure”: what the first elements of the investigation into Kévin T., the Trappes killer reveal

Without regret and without remorse. At the end of his 96-hour police custody, punctuated by a suspension of some 48 hours for medical and psychiatric examinations, Kévin T., the accused in the murderous course which took place in Trappes on Friday October 23 in the morning, “recognizes not only the materiality of the facts but affirms to have prepared for this action, to have planned and intellectually constructed it in its principle and its course”, summarizes Olivier Christen, national anti-terrorism prosecutor. A shooting which left one dead and five injured, including a twelve-year-old girl.

“The individual, who says he wanted to shoot people because of their true or supposed belonging to a race, an ethnic group or a religion, targeting African, North African or Muslim people, is therefore part of a very deep xenophobia, and a very demanding approach without the slightest remorse,” explains the senior magistrate. A change in the attitude of…