Note listing four left-wing figures found at home of Trappes suspect, French prosecutors say


PARIS, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Investigators ⁠found a sticky note with the names and ⁠mobile phone numbers of four public figures linked ‌to the left during a search of a the suspect of an October shooting in a Paris suburb, France’s anti-terrorism prosecution office said ​on Wednesday.

The suspect, referred to by ⁠prosecutors as Kevin T, ⁠39, was formally placed under investigation on charges including murder ⁠and ‌attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.

• Kevin T 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

• ⁠Asked whether ​he intended to target them, he said no: “No, no, no, I had just taken the numbers but I had no ⁠project under way”

• Prosecutors said nothing ​else in the case file supports the existence of a considered plan of violent action against the four

• French broadcaster ⁠BFM TV earlier reported the names on thesuspect's list included people from the leftwing France Unbowed and Green parties

• Prosecutors said at the time of the shooting that ​the crimewas committed because of the ⁠victims’ actual or supposed membership of a particular race, ethnic ​group, nation or religion, an ‌aggravating circumstance under French law.

• One ​person was killed, five were injured in the shooting

(reporting by Nicolas Delame, writing by Tassilo Hummel)

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