The 69-year-old man, suspected of killing three people on Friday near a Kurdish cultural center in Paris, told a police officer during his arrest that he acted because he was "racist", a-t- we learned on Saturday from a source familiar with the matter.
The suspect, who was subdued at a nearby hair salon before police intervened, was arrested with "a briefcase" containing "two or three loaded magazines, a box of 45 caliber cartridges with at least 25 rounds of inside, "said this source, confirming information from the JDD.
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