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Tunisian national shot dead by neighbour in the south of France
- A Tunisian man was shot dead by his neighbour late Saturday in Puget-sur-Argens, southern France, while a 25-year-old Turkish national was injured and hospitalized.
- The shooting took place one month after a 22-year-old Malian man named Aboubakar Cisse was fatally stabbed during prayers at a mosque in La Grand-Combe, with authorities treating both incidents as racially motivated crimes.
- The 53-year-old French suspect, who practices sports shooting, posted racist and hateful videos on social media before and after the attack and fled the scene before his arrest nearby.
- French prosecutors have launched inquiries into an alleged terror scheme driven by racial or religious motives, as official figures reveal an 11 percent increase in crimes fueled by racism, xenophobia, or religious hatred over the past year.
- Rights groups condemned the killings as part of a growing series of racist crimes in France, denouncing a poisonous climate and trivialisation of racist rhetoric in the country.
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Anti-terror prosecutor investigates killing of Tunisian man in France
The French anti-terrorism prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into whether the killing of a Tunisian national in southern France was a racially motivated crime "related to a terrorist undertaking".
On 2 June, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office seized the investigation into the murder on Saturday in the Var of a man of Tunisian nationality. The suspect, a 53-year-old Frenchman, published a message of protest against immigration before his arrest. TF1's JT went there. - Murder of a Tunisian in the Var: what is known about this racist crime (Police, justice and other facts).
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The Straits TimesFrench anti-terror prosecutor investigates killing of Tunisian national
The suspect, a 53-year-old man who practices shooting as a sport, published what it said was hateful and racist content on his social media account before and after Saturday's killing.
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France probes terror motive after man shoots dead Tunisian neighbour
French prosecutors Monday were probing a terror motive after a man who had posted racist videos shot dead his Tunisian neighbour and badly wounded a Turkish man in the south of the country.
French police probe racist motive in deadly attack to Tunisian
French police on Monday were probing a racist motive after a man at the weekend shot dead his Tunisian neighbour and badly wounded a Turkish citizen in the south of the country. The shooting in Puget-sur-Argens in the Var region comes after a Malian man was stabbed to death in April in a mosque, also in southern France, as concern grows over hate crimes against Muslims. The suspected killer, 53, who is French, fled the scene in a car but was arr…
Tunisian national shot dead by neighbour in the south of France
A Tunisian national was shot dead by his neighbour in the south of France, the prosecutor in the Draguignan commune said in a statement, adding that the incident was being investigated as a racially motivated crime.
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