Trappes shooting leaves one dead and at least four injured
An armed assailant using an automatic weapon carried out a series of shootings across Trappes and La Verrière on the morning of October 23, 2026, leaving one person dead and at least four others injured.
The Morning Rampage Across Yvelines Communes
According to bfmtv.com, the suspect, identified as 39-year-old Kevin T., opened fire from a vehicle in multiple locations starting around 10:30 AM. He targeted a parked vehicle, a medical center, a gas station, and a playground before security forces ultimately intercepted and arrested him.
Kevin T., whose criminal record carries four fully rehabilitated convictions and who was not flagged on the French security “S” file but known only for common law offenses such as traffic violations, began shooting around 10:00 AM at Trappes toward a parked car holding a mother and her daughter without injuring them. Amandine, une femme qui a porté secours à la fillette de 12 ans touchée à huit reprises par balle à La Verrière, a raconté l’avoir entendue hurler qu’elle avait mal et qu’elle était en sang.
National Antiterrorism Prosecutors Seize the Case
The Parquet National Antiterroriste (PNAT) immediately assumed jurisdiction over the case, opening a flagrante delicto investigation for assassination and attempted assassinations linked to a terrorist enterprise. Prosecutors confirmed that the attacks were carried out with the circumstance that the acts were committed based on the actual or supposed membership in a determined race, ethnicity, nation, or religion.
A Toll of One Dead and Five Wounded
The violence resulted in one fatality—a 26-year-old Black man, according to reports by Contre Attaque—and at least four injured victims.
The mother of the 12-year-old girl in absolute emergency, who was shot eight times in the liver, kidney, arms, and thighs, stated to RTL that her daughter had gone to the swimming pool, was conscious before entering surgery, and that her legs would be deformed, wondering How can you do that to a child?
and adding She didn’t do anything to deserve that
while noting the child had tied a scarf on her head.
Among the wounded in absolute emergency is a 12-year-old girl, who sustained eight gunshot wounds and was rushed to surgery in critical condition.
Macron Denounces Racist Terrorist Attack in Trappes
Emmanuel Macron traveled to Trappes later in the day to meet with local officials, rescue workers, and residents, with the Élysée officially denouncing the incident as a racist terrorist attack. Laurent Nuñez and Minister for the Fight Against Discrimination Aurore Bergé visited the scene, with Nuñez confirming the provisional casualty toll and the terrorist qualification of the crime.
Ali Rabeh, the Génération.s mayor of Trappes, stated during a 2:30 PM press conference held at their local office at 24 rue Jean-Jaurès that the injured 12-year-old girl is between life and death
and denounced the event as objectively an attack, with a racist connotation, probably Islamophobic,
adding that This is probably one of the first, a first mass crime attempt with an Islamophobic and racist connotation
and that We are collectively responsible for what has just happened and what could happen again in our country, and our responsibility to all is de-escalation, it is republican concord
. Aurore Bergé denounced on BFMTV a terrorist crime, likely of a racist nature
and affirmed that It should awaken the consciousness of the whole country,
noting that the four wounded victims were transported to Paris for optimal care.
Ongoing Judicial Proceedings
Authorities placed Kevin T. and a member of his direct family in police custody as antiterrorist prosecutor Olivier Christen inspect the various crime scenes across the Yvelines department.