French prosecutors are investigating the murder of a Tunisian man by his white neighbour in the south of France, treating it as a suspected racially-motivated terrorist attack.
It is the first time that counterterrorism prosecutors have taken charge of an investigation into a killing allegedly committed by a far-right supporter. It came amid growing concern over hate crimes against Muslims in France after a Malian man was stabbed to death in a mosque in April.
The Tunisian man, Hichem Miraoui, was a 46-year-old hairdresser who had lived in France for 14 years. He was shot five times on Saturday by a 53-year-old boilermaker named as Christophe B in the southern town of Puget-sur-Argens, near the Riviera resort of Saint-Raphaël, prosecutors said. A 25-year-old Turkish man was also shot in the hand.
