A week after a white man fatally shot a Black man in Trappes, a working-class immigrant suburb of Paris that President Macron called a terrorist and racist attack, the suspect, Kévin Tessier, told investigators he targeted the city as a 'den of Islamists,' according to prosecutors. Residents and left-wing leaders, including mayor Ali Rabeh, blamed far-right anti-immigrant rhetoric, which figures like Jordan Bardella rejected, dismissing the city as 'a miniature Islamic Republic.'