Several political figures react after being targeted by the main suspect in the racist attack in Trappes

The day after the revelations by the press, including Franceinfo, of the discovery of a list of four left-wing and far-left personalities at Kévin Tessier, the main suspect of the racist attack in Yvelines, the elected officials and political figures targeted by this list, spoke out to react, particularly on social networks.

“I am perhaps too demanding to ask to be warned when a terrorist seems to want my skin?”, questioned Wednesday November 11 on X David Guiraud, LFI mayor of Roubaix, who regrets having learned the information from the press and not from the authorities. “I have still had no word from the government,” he wrote, adding that “personal threats will neither keep me from sleeping nor from fighting racism.”

“I am surprised that the authorities did not see fit to warn the people who were among the possible targets of this terrorist,” Manuel Bompard, coordinator of La France insoumise, declared on Thursday on ICI Provence. “My colleague David Guiraud”, LFI mayor of Roubaix, “appears on this list, but he learned about it from the press and not from the authorities, which still poses a problem for us”, believes the rebellious MP for Bouches-du-Rhône.

"We will not give up", also testified on Wednesday on Bluesky the MP Europe Ecologie les Verts Sandrine Rousseau, who confirms having also learned "through the press [to appear] on the list of the terrorist of Trappes". Sandrine Rousseau addresses her “first thoughts to the victims of this killer who suffered the reality of his bullets and his ideology and to the comrades on the list”.

“I want this hatred to stop”

Anti-racist activist Assa Traoré confirms Thursday, November 12 to Agence Radio France that “[her] name appears on a list with the racist killer of Trappes”. According to information from franceinfo, his telephone number also appeared on this note found during the search of Kévin Tessier's home. She declared to Agence Radio France: “I want this hatred to stop. Racism must be banned and firmly condemned in France. All lives count equally.”

Furthermore, in a press release posted during the night from Wednesday to Thursday on his Instagram account, Assa Traoré wrote "having decided to file a complaint". “While we were splitting into four pieces on TV about the nature of the far-right leaflets discovered in the terrorist's car or in the apartment, neither the justice system, nor the police, nor any official saw fit to alert me,” she wrote.

“He is not the only one to have this kind of note”

For his part, the related LFI deputy Aymeric Caron reacted Thursday to France Inter while his name was also found on this note. “Now we need to know what he intended to do with this list,” said the elected official. “I think he is not the only one to have this kind of note,” he explains, while specifying “receive lots of messages from people coming from the extreme right with threats, saying that they will settle my account as soon as the extreme right is in power”. He also believes that "the authorities are not taking the problem seriously."

The suspect assured during his custody that this "could be useful one day" and explained that he had "not yet planned anything on this subject" and had listed "leftists" whom he described as "enemies of France."