the suspect admitted to a “pathological hatred of foreigners”

The 69-year-old man suspected of havingkilled three Kurds and injured three people in Paris on Fridayadmitted while in police custody to feel a “ hatred of foreigners has become completely pathological “, announced Sunday, December 25 in a press release the prosecutor of Paris Laure Beccuau.

The pensioner of French nationality, whose police custody was lifted on Saturday for health reasons and who was taken to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters, described himself as ” depressive ” and ” suicidal “, specifying to have” always wanted to murder migrants, foreigners “Since a burglary at his home in 2016, says Ms. Beccuau.

He explained in police custody that he first went to Saint-Denis ” to commit murders on foreign persons “Said the Paris prosecutor on Sunday. The suspect has finally gave up taking action, given the few people present and because of his dress preventing him from reloading his weapon easily added the prosecutor.

He then returned to his parents, then came out and went shortly before noon to rue d’Enghien, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, where he knew of the existence of a Kurdish cultural center, and opened fire.

The injured out of danger

A woman – Emine Kara, a leader of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in France – and two men, including the artist and political refugee Mir Perwer, died under his bullets. Three other men were injured, including one seriously, but their lives are no longer in danger and one of them has left the hospital, according to the latest report released by the prosecutor on Sunday.

Five of the six victims are of Turkish nationality, the last French.

Indicating to resent ” to all migrants “, he explains having attacked victims he did not know, specifying that he blames the Kurds for having ” made prisoners during their fight against Daesh instead of killing them “, affirmed the public ministry.

He had ” intend to use all ammo and commit suicide with the last bullet but was stopped by several people at a nearby hair salon before being arrested by the police.

The first elements obtained during a search of his parents, including the seizure of a computer and a smartphone, did not ” nothing revealed at this stage “, according to the prosecutor, and not allowed to establish ” any connection to an extremist ideology “.

Already convicted in 2017 for carrying a prohibited weapon and last June for violence with weapons on burglars – the facts he mentioned in police custody – he has been indicted since December 2021 for violence with weapons, with premeditation. and racist.

He is suspected of having stabbed migrants at a camp in Paris on December 8, 2021.

After a year in pre-trial detention, he was released on December 12.

Turkey singled out

Friday’s attack shocked the Kurdish community, which denounced an act ” terrorist and implicated Turkey.

That the track of the terrorist attack was not retained from the outset aroused anger and incomprehension. ” The fact that our associations are targeted is of a terrorist and political nature “said Agit Polat, spokesperson for the CDK-F.

In the capital, a gathering of several thousand people was marred by violence and degradation. Thirty-one police officers and a demonstrator were slightly injured, eleven people arrested, announced the prefect Nuñez.

An adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan posted photos of overturned and burnt-out cars in Paris on Twitter on Sunday, writing, “ it’s the PKK in France », « the same organization you support in Syria ” and ” who has killed thousands of Turks, Kurds and security forces over the past forty years “.

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(With AFP)