While a white march in tribute to the three Kurds killed in Paris on Friday set off in the French capital on Monday, December 26, the custody of the main suspect was lifted and he must be presented to an investigating judge.
The custody of the main suspect in the shooting that killed three Kurds was lifted on Monday, December 26. He will be presented during the day to an examining magistrate and his indictment should take place in stride.
A judicial investigation was opened for assassination and attempted assassination due to race, ethnicity, nation or religion as well as for unauthorized acquisition, possession and carrying of weapons.
racist motive
The prosecution requests that this 69-year-old retiree be placed in pre-trial detention. The racist motive of the crime is therefore confirmed
Let us recall that during his custody, the suspect admitted to feeling “ a pathological hatred of foreigners ». However, the national anti-terrorism prosecution has not taken up the investigation because nothing connects this man to a terrorist project, according to the prosecution.
And during the search of his parents’ home, computers and telephones revealed nothing about a possible link with an extremist ideology.
The 69-year-old pensioner opened fire on Friday in a street in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, killing Mir Perwer, a Kurdish political refugee singer, and Abdurrahman Kizil, as well as the head of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in France, Emine Kara.
Stabbing attack in a migrant camp
As soon as he was arrested, the suspect had indicated that he had acted because he was ” racist “Said a source familiar with the matter.
In another case, the alleged shooter was indicted, in particular for violence with a racist weapon, suspected of having stabbed migrants in a Paris camp on December 8, 2021.
Placed in pre-trial detention for one year, the maximum period provided for by law for this type of act, he was released on December 12.
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