Prosecutors have said that the attack in a parking lot near a cultural centre at Sevran, which lies between central Paris and the city’s main airport Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 pm.
The police found four injured people strewn on the ground. One died soon after and the three others were taken to hospitals in a serious condition.
An eye witness said that two men had arrived in the parking lot in a car and one of them got out and opened fire.
He added that three more people were injured by bullets and were later taken to hospital for medical attention, adding that the attackers immediately fled the scene.
Sevran mayor Stephane Blanchet told newsmen “it was clearly a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.”
“There is a need to establish order and eradicate trafficking,” he said. “Those idiots fired live bullets and did not heed appeals for calm”.
Police have opened an investigation into intentional homicide by an organised gang, they said. No arrests had been by Saturday morning.