In police custody, Kévin Tessier, the main suspect of the October 23 racist terror attack in Trappes, said he was acting "on behalf of France" when he went on a deadly rampage that killed one and left five injured. Investigators also found a sticky note at his home where he had listed names and phone numbers of left-wing figures.
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Investigators found a sticky note with the names and mobile phone numbers of four public figures linked to the political left wing during a search of the home of the suspect in an October shooting in a Paris suburb, France’s anti-terrorism prosecution office said on Wednesday.
The suspect, Kévin Tessier, 39, was formally placed under investigation on charges including murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.
Tessier told investigators that he had taken the phone numbers from a website listing leaked data and described the four as "leftists", the prosecution office said.
The sticky note included the names and numbers of two Green Party MPs Aymeric Caron and Sandrine Rousseau, France Unbowed MP David Guiraud and Assa Traoré, a prominent French activist who leads campaigns against racism and police violence.
France Unbowed leader and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed alarm about the existence of the list on X, as did…
