Burst shootings, 12-year-old girl among the victims, profile of the suspect...: what we know about the shooting which left at least one dead and four injured in Yvelines

An individual opened fire in the middle of the street this Friday, October 23 in La Verrière then in Trappes, two neighboring towns in Yvelines, corroborating sources indicate to Le Figaro. He allegedly fired “in bursts” from the window of his car, indiscriminately, obviously with the aim of hitting as many people as possible.

A first report communicated by a police source and confirmed by the Minister of the Interior Laurent Nunez during a press conference at midday, shows one dead and four injured, but it remains to be consolidated. A source tells us that one of the injured would be a 12-year-old girl, seriously injured eight times and treated with a life-threatening prognosis. She was hospitalized at Necker hospital in Paris.

During his brief speech, the tenant of Beauvau confirmed the referral to the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat). “All the resources of the security forces and the judicial authority are fully mobilized,” said the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, on X. It is also on this social network that Emmanuel Macron expressed his “deep emotion” following the terrible attack. “Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, as well as all the residents of Yvelines. In this terrible ordeal, the Nation stands by their side. Gratitude to our law enforcement who have already arrested the author,” wrote the President of the Republic.

The events occurred around 10 a.m., particularly at the Trappes post office and Square Louis Pergaud. This is where the deceased victim would have been impacted. It would be a young man of 26 years old, operating in the world of combat sports.

A young man aged 21 is said to be between life and death after being hit by “numerous bullet holes” at an Esso service station along National Route 10. Other victims are to be deplored near a nursery school and a second kindergarten. “Be careful, there’s a guy driving around in a gray Clio who hits everyone in the area, going home is better,” alerted an Internet user on social networks when the attacker passed by. The latter also opened fire in the neighboring town of La Verrière, near the SNCF station and a pharmacy, where he left two more victims, aged 30 and 48. The first was transported to the Pompidou hospital in absolute emergency, the second to the Kremlin-Bicêtre, in Paris, with no life-threatening situation.

Kevin T., 39, identified as the person responsible for this deadly journey, allegedly used a Sten-type submachine gun, a collector's weapon from the Second World War. Originally from Saint-Cyr-l'École and known for acts of "delinquency" without us knowing more at this stage, he was arrested less than ten minutes after the first detonations, along the RN10, in Coignières (Yvelines). It was police officers from the BAC of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines who neutralized him. The motivations for the action are unknown at this stage. The possibility of a settling of scores, however, seems unlikely given that the victims appear to have been chosen at random and that the crime scenes are multiple and sometimes several kilometers apart. A search of his home, located in the town of Plaisir, is underway, mobilizing units from the Raid and the mine clearance intervention group.