TrappesA gunman killed 1 and wounded 4, including a 12-year-old girl.
France’s antiterrorism prosecutors are investigating a racial or religious motive.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said the gunman fired from a car at a playground, a fuel station and a medical centre.
“This was a terrorist attack with racist, likely Islamophobic, overtones,” said Ali Rabeh, Trappes’s mayor.
Nuñez will deploy 70,000 officers across the country Saturday for cost-of-living protests.
How each outlet framed it
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- Le Monde.fr leans critical
- The New York Times leans critical
- reports the investigators' explicit racial-or-religious motive inquiry, and that the gunman fired in three separate locations in Trappes and La Verrière
- News18 leans critical
- names the 12-year-old girl shot eight times and quotes the mayor's account of a 'massacre' driven by a road route from Trappes to La Verrière
- Yahoo News leans critical
- places the shooting in the wider context of France's violent protests the previous Saturday and possible unrest ahead of the coming weekend
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- frames the attack as a possible Islamophobic terrorist crime, citing the mayor's 'racist, likely Islamophobic, overtones' remark and the victims' African and North African origins
Sources: Le Monde.fr, The New York Times, News18, Yahoo News, Al Jazeera Online