On the eve of Christmas and New Year, the carnival of death swept through the streets of Paris.
Its main character was an elderly man who does not look like a brutal killer or terrorist.
This 69-year-old Frenchman, as it turned out later, a former railway worker, armed with a Colt 45 pistol, came to the cultural center of the Kurds in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and began firing at the people gathered here.
What did the attacker have to do with the Kurds, why did they become his living targets, what did these people do to him, whom he without hesitation took their lives by frantically pulling the trigger?
Alien soul - darkness.
And the soul of this gentleman, as it turned out, is still so dark.
And mentally he is not all right.
This was told by the 93-year-old father of the attacker, who spoke about his problematic son, who spent a year in prison, and when he was released, he took up the old.
“Last night he was doing crossword puzzles with his mother.
He was always silent and did not live like others, ”the father lamented.
Last year, armed with a saber, his son attacked a migrant camp, and five years earlier, he had stabbed someone.
After spending a year in pre-trial detention, he was released pending trial only on December 12, but again he was drawn to exploits.
After the arrest, the killer allowed himself racist statements, not hiding his anger towards the “come in large numbers”.
This story received a dramatic continuation - Paris was swept by spontaneous protests, accusations were made against the Turkish leadership.
It is no coincidence that the Turkish theme has surfaced in this story: President Erdogan has made the fight against the Kurds, in whom he sees solid terrorists and radicals, one of his priorities.
In Europe, at his suggestion, a real hunt for the Kurds unfolded.
It is no coincidence that Recep Tayyip Erdogan set an ultimatum condition for his readiness to support the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO: Kurdish organizations need to cut off oxygen.
Almost ten years ago, in January 2013, three Kurds were killed in the center of Paris.
And here is another reminder that the Kurdish issue remains for France a time bomb that can explode at any moment.
However, the more you think about what happened, the more you tend to think that this story is not only and not so much about the Kurds.
It is no coincidence that the attacker chose not to develop the Kurdish theme, but simply hoped that he did not like strangers.
You can say, "persons of Kurdish nationality", by which immigrants can generally be meant.
In France, there is the largest Muslim community in all of Europe, a significant part of which has developed conflict relations with the country, which never became their second home, but became an evil stepmother.
From time to time, these relationships explode when stories like the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in the weekly Charlie Hebdo occur.
Then it turns out that within one France there are two completely different countries, between which there is a blank wall or an insurmountable abyss.
Their relationship is built on the principle of "an eye for an eye", each of them lives in the belief that Paris is worth revenge.
This was proved by a retired killer, a railroad shooter, for whom the Kurds became switchmen.
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