French prosecutors were on Monday 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 France.

The shooting late on Saturday in Puget-sur-Argens, in the southern region of Var, came 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 shooting was initially investigated by regional prosecutors as a suspected murder motivated by the victim's ethnicity or religion.

But French national anti-terror prosecutors, known by their French acronym PNAT, announced on Monday that they would be taking over the investigation.

The suspect wanted to "disrupt public order through terror", according to a source close to the case.

The suspected killer, a Frenchman born in........

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