France. The perpetrator of the racist attack had a list of left-wing personalities

O author of the racist attack that killed a black man and injured seven people in the Paris region in October, kept in his residence a list of left-wing personalities.

According to Kevin Tessier’s own testimony, he had gathered these names because “they could be useful someday.”.

The list included Ecologist Mrs Sandrine Rousseau, also Member of the La France Insumise party (LFI, Insubmissive France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon), Aymeric Caron, Mayor of Roubaix, David Guiraud, and activist Assa Traoré, according to information from RMC station and BFMTV channel.

France Info reported that, during the interrogations carried out after his arrest for the fatal shooting of 23 October in the city of Trappes, on the outskirts of Paris, Tessier claimed to have gathered the names and telephone numbers for possible future use, although he stressed that he had not yet planned anything.

He explained to the police who wrote down the numbers for being “leftists” and “enemies of France”, adding that he obtained the data through a “site” that provides information from pirated files.

Rousseau told the CMR that he already knew he was a target, and that this information only confirms this fact.

Caron also stressed that “unfortunately” was not surprised to learn that his name was on the list and added that he has received threats for years, but that the authorities have not taken them seriously.

In a publication on social network X, Mélenchon demanded that the authorities reveal who else was on the list of the “Trappes killer”.

He also criticised the fact that he was never warned by the authorities about arrests of individuals planning to kill him.