A man opened fire on December 23 near a Kurdish cultural center in the tenth arrondissement of Paris. Three people were killed and several others were injured, according to a provisional report. Listen again to our special edition.
The shooting committed this December 23 rue d’Enghien, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at the level of a Kurdish cultural center, left three dead and several injured, according to a preliminary report. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau told the press that it was not a terrorist crime and that the ” racist motives of the facts “were going” obviously be part of the investigations that have just begun “. The shooter wanted obviously picking on strangers “, affirmed the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin who came to the scene. But he does not say that the Kurdish community was explicitly targeted.
Aged 69 and of French nationality, the suspect was arrested quickly and placed in police custody, said the prosecution, which adds that the danger is ” discarded “. Unknown to territorial intelligence files and the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), he is however known to the police for two attempted homicides committed in 2016 and December 2021.
Kurdish protesters gathered at the crime scene. Incidents broke out on the sidelines of the demonstration. Some demonstrators threw projectiles at the police, who responded with tear gas. These incidents began when the crowd ran into a police cordon protecting the crime scene.
To decipher this news and understand what happened, RFI receives:
– Erwan Lecoeursociologist, political scientist, far-right specialist
– Kendal NezanPresident of the Kurdish Institute of Paris