More and more details are emerging after the shots in Paris that killed three people on Friday. The perpetrator is said to be a “right-wing extremist” who only got out of prison in mid-December. He has been convicted of two attempted murders, according to police crises.
According to media reports, the 69-year-old suspect repeatedly attacked refugees, for example last year with a saber in a camp. He injured several people in the process. The broadcaster France Info reported that the man was only released from prison in mid-December and was under judicial supervision. He is currently in police custody.
Earlier on Friday, he reportedly fired shots at a hair salon, restaurant and Kurdish community center in Paris’ tenth arrondissement. Three people died and others were injured. “I saw two police officers enter a hair salon where two people were lying on the floor, their legs were injured,” says a local resident. According to an eyewitness, the employees of the restaurant and the hair salon brought each other to safety. A total of seven or eight shots would have been fired and there was panic, another eyewitness reported.
Probably acted alone
“As it stands, he acted alone,” said French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. He arrived at the crime scene on Friday afternoon and announced stronger police protection for Kurdish facilities. “The Kurds, wherever they live, must be able to live in peace and security. Paris stands by her more than ever in these dark hours,” Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo wrote on Twitter, describing the gunman as a “right-wing extremist”.
The 69-year-old was known to authorities “but not in the context of political extremism,” according to Darmanian. This time, the Public Prosecution Service is investigating again for murder and serious violence. The crime squad of the judicial police is primarily responsible, not the terror prosecutor who was on the scene.
Kurds suspect Turkish attack
While the French police are currently assuming a racist motive for the crime, the Council of the Kurdish Society in Austria (FEYKOM) even suspects an “attack against Kurds organized by the Turkish state”. in front of the French embassy in Vienna “to show solidarity with the Kurdish people.”
Source: Krone
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