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Deadly shooting near Paris is a 'racist terrorist attack', Macron says

One person is killed and five wounded in a series of attacks and the suspected gunman has been apprehended.

BBC World•

French President Emmanuel Macron has labelled a gun attack in a Parisian suburb which killed one person and injured five others "a racist terrorist attack".

Macron said the attack was a "turning point in the life of our Republic and our nation" as he declared "this has no place in France".

Several drive-by shootings took place on Friday - first in Trappes to the south-west of Paris, and then in nearby La Verrière - and a 12-year-old girl was among the injured.

Asked what the motive for the shootings may have been, the mayor of Trappes said that the victim who had died was of African origin and one of those in a critical condition was of North African descent.