Key facts
- Anti-terrorism prosecutors said a search of the suspect's home found a note with four left-linked names and phone numbers.
- Kevin T, 39, was placed under investigation on charges including murder and attempted murder tied to a terrorist enterprise.
- Kevin T told investigators he took the numbers from a website listing leaked data, the prosecution office said.
- Asked whether he intended to target the four, Kevin T said he had no project under way, according to prosecutors.
- Prosecutors said nothing else in the case file supports a considered plan of violent action against the four.
- BFM TV earlier reported the names included people from France Unbowed and the Green parties.
French anti-terrorism prosecutors said on November 11 that a search of the suspect in an October shooting in a Paris suburb found a sticky note carrying the names and mobile phone numbers of four public figures linked to the left.
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 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, 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 the suspect's list included people from the left-wing France Unbowed and Green parties.
Prosecutors said at the time of the shooting that the crime was 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 and five were injured in the shooting.