Accounts conflict Whether the shooting had a racist motive
Prosecutors said Kévin T. admitted targeting people who appeared Muslim, African or North African, and applied aggravating circumstances tied to victims’ profiles and remarks attributed to him. Macron called the attack racist.
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Olivier Christen, French prosecutor · our summary of CNews
As quoted in French, with a machine translation
“Le profil de la majorité des victimes et certains propos qui auraient été tenus par le mis en cause nous ont par ailleurs conduit à retenir les circonstances aggravantes de faits…”
Machine translation: “The profile of the majority of the victims and certain remarks that the suspect is alleged to have made also led us to retain the aggravating circumstances of acts linked to…”
prosecutors, French prosecutors · our summary of BBC News
