Riots have erupted in Paris after at least three people were killed and several wounded in a shooting at a Kurdish cultural center and a hair salon in the central parts of the city.
France’s interior minister says the man suspected of the crime “clearly targeted foreigners”.
According to witnesses, seven or eight shots were fired on or near the street, located in Paris’s 10th arrondissement, near the Gare de l’est train station.
Witness saw the man shoot
A witness says he saw an elderly man enter the Kurdish cultural center and start shooting there. The man is then reported to have gone on to an adjacent hair salon.
After the incident, outraged people have taken to the streets. According to the AP news agency, people of Kurdish background are at the scene of the crime, and they are protesting against the repression in Turkey. Police are reported to have fired tear gas at the increasingly angry crowd.
Recently released from prison
The suspect is said to be a French citizen who has committed violent crimes in the past. Last December, he attacked at least two people at a migrant facility with a knife.
He was then accused, among other things, of armed violence with a racial motive and was released from prison custody only a few days ago.
Watch the police restrain the angry people in the player above.