French gunman is accused of Paris drive-by shooting 'targeted black people and Arabs' to avenge riot looting
Clashes between protesters and riot police in Paris, as largely peaceful nationwide marches turned violent by evening despite a 70,000-strong deployment that prevented the arson seen a week earlier.Riots in Paris. Activists have called a further day of protests for 31 October after Saturday's marches drew between 410,000 and 800,000 people nationwide.
Amateur MMA fighter Pengo Bossio Wangi, 26, was killed and five others injured, including a 12-year-old girl, when shots were fired in Trappes on Friday. The French government has classified the attack as racially motivated terrorism; all six victims were non-white. The suspect, named as Kevin T, has confessed to a racist motive. His home in Plaisir was booby-trapped with gas cylinders wired to a timer.
Kevin T reportedly said he was 'fed up with them' after shops were ransacked.
Police found a submachine gun, tear-gas grenades and cocaine in his car.
