Investigators found a sticky note bearing the names and mobile phone numbers of four left-wing public figures while searching the home of the suspect in last month’s deadly shooting near Paris, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecution office (PNAT) said on Wednesday.
The suspect, a 39-year-old man identified by prosecutors only as Kevin T, has been formally placed under investigation on charges including murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
One person was killed and five others were injured, including a child, when a gunman opened fire on 23 October in Trappes and nearby La Verrière, in the western suburbs of Paris. The suspect was arrested later with a machine gun and tear gas grenades in his car.
According to prosecutors, Kevin T told investigators he had taken the phone numbers from a website listing leaked data, and he described the four people as “leftists”. Asked whether he had intended to target them, he said: “No, no, no, I had just taken the numbers but I had no project under way.”
Prosecutors said nothing else in the case file that supported the existence of a considered plan of violent action against the four. French broadcaster BFM TV said the list included members of the left-wing France Unbowed party and the Greens.
At a news conference last month, national anti-terrorism prosecutor Olivier Christen said the suspect had admitted choosing his victims because they appeared to be Muslim or African. He said the suspect chose Trappes because he considered it a hotbed of Islamists.
Christen said the suspect had told investigators he was neither a member nor a supporter of any political party.
Prosecutors said at the time that the crime was committed because of the victims' actual or supposed membership of a particular race, ethnic group, nation or religion, an aggravating circumstance under French law.
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