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One person killed in shooting near Paris, French prime minister says

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At least one person was killed and four people were injured in a shooting near Paris, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Friday.

“The individual has been apprehended and taken into police custody,” he said on X .

One person has been arrested and charged on four counts, including murder and possession of a firearm, with the “aggravating circumstance that the acts were committed on the basis of actual or supposed membership in a particular race, ethnicity, a purported race, ethnic group, nation, or specific religion,” France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office told NBC News in a statement.

The incident occurred in Trappes and La Verrière, a suburb in Yvelines department, about 20 miles west of Paris, authorities said.

Trappes Mayor Ali Rabeh said on X that a man had opened fire on people from his car.…

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