Racist and far-right killings: from Bayonne in 2019 to Trappes with Kévin T., what the judicial investigations say

Beyond the political controversies, Trappes is not a clap of thunder in a serene sky. From Bayonne in 2019 to Puget-sur-Argens in 2025 via Paris in 2022, the perpetrators of the racist shootings of recent years, all liable to life imprisonment, shared the same vision of the world. And this regardless of their judicial, terrorist or common law treatment, depending on the evaluation of their psychological state and their personal and/or ideological motives.

First point in common among them: the display of ideological proximity with the National Rally, rejected by the latter. This was the case with the author of the attack on the Bayonne mosque on October 28, 2019. Indicted in particular for attempted assassination and damage and destruction committed because of ethnicity, nation, race or religion, Claude Sinké, 84 years old, ex-railway worker and sports shooter, had attempted to burn down the place of worship and fired a 357 Magnum at two worshipers...