The 69-year-old Frenchman suspected of having killed three Kurds last Friday in Paris planned other murders of foreigners, and with that objective he first traveled to the town of Saint-Denis, in the north, but gave up doing so, he announced this Sunday the prosecutor of the French capital.
The man, a retired train conductor, had previously gone to Saint-Denis, which has a significant migrant population, “to commit murder against foreign persons”but “he resigned (…) because there were few people and because of the clothes he was wearing, which prevented him from easily reloading his weapon,” prosecutor Laure Beccuau explained in a statement.
During his detention and interrogation, the man acknowledged that he felt a “hatred of foreigners that became completely pathological,” he added.
The suspect, who was transferred last Saturday to a police psychiatric unit, described himself as “depressive” and with “suicidal” tendencies, he added, reported the AFP news agency.
video of #Shooting in #Paris; there are 3 people dead. pic.twitter.com/bYpSOSP6E1
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Also He stated that he had “always” wanted to “murder migrants, foreigners”, since he was the victim of a robbery at his home in 2016said the prosecutor.
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Last Friday, the man opened fire several times in front of a Kurdish cultural center in central Paris.
Several people managed to stop him before the arrival of the police.
next to the suspect “a briefcase” was found containing “two or three chargers, a box of 45 caliber cartridges with at least 25 cartridges inside”according to a source close to the case cited by AFP.
Three people, two men and one woman, died and another three were injured, one of them seriously, according to the latest balance.
Due to the incident, several thousand people gathered peacefully in the Place de la République in Paris, a few meters from the place where the incident occurred, which also left three people injured, one of them seriously.
At least 11 people were arrested last Saturday in riots during another march against racistly motivated crime.
“The attack in Paris constitutes a continuation of the massacre of January 9, 2013”
This was confirmed by the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK) after yesterday’s attack against a Kurdish Cultural Center in the French capital.https://t.co/bDf9wZv6lx pic.twitter.com/YCPNp3Ua48
– KurdistanAméricaLat (@KurdistanLat) December 24, 2022
For its part, according to the portal kurdistanamericalatina.org, the Executive Council of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) issued a statement in which it denounced the government of Turkey.
“We strongly condemn this attack, clearly perpetrated by the Turkish state and the AKP-MHP government. We respectfully commemorate those who lost their lives in the attack. Those who lost their lives in this attack have become immortal martyrs of Kurdistan. The people of Kurdistan and the international friends of the Kurdish people must now show a strong reaction against this massacre and protect the immortal martyrs and their memory”, said the Kurdish organization, which denounced that “this massacre constitutes a continuation of the massacre of January 9 of 2013 that took place in Paris. Ten years ago, the Turkish state brought its policy of massacres and genocide against the Kurds to Europe with its attack in Paris. As a result, three revolutionary and patriotic Kurdish women were killed.”
