French prosecutors were on Monday probing a terror motive after a man who had posted racist videos shot dead his Tunisian neighbor and badly wounded a Turkish man in the south of France.
The shooting late on Saturday in Puget-sur-Argens, in the southern region of Var, came after a Malian man was stabbed to death in April in a mosque, also in southern France, as concern grows over
The shooting was initially investigated by regional prosecutors as a suspected murder motivated by the victim’s ethnicity or religion.
But French national anti-terror prosecutors, known by their French acronym PNAT, announced on Monday that they would be taking over the investigation.
The suspect wanted to “disrupt public order through terror,” according to a source close to the case.
The suspected killer, a Frenchman born in 1971, fled the scene in a car but was arrested not far away after his partner alerted police.
He posted videos with racist content before and after the shooting late on Saturday, according to regional prosecutor Pierre Couttenier
