Extending the arrest of the shooter in Paris and the investigation adopts the hypothesis of racial motivation
French police on the street where the shooting occurred in central Paris.
Reuters
Yesterday, the French Public Prosecutor announced the extension of the arrest of the 69-year-old man, who is suspected of killing three Kurds with a gun, and wounding three others in Paris, on Friday, and indicated that the investigation also relied on examining the racist motive.
Investigations now focus on charges of murder, attempted murder and armed violence, as well as racially motivated violations of gun legislation.
"The addition of this order does not change the maximum possible penalty, which remains life imprisonment," the prosecution said.
The man confirmed that he fired because he was a "racist," as stated by a source close to the ongoing investigations, yesterday, to determine his motives.
The source stated that the suspect, who was seized before the police intervened, was arrested with a “small bag” containing “two or three magazines full of cartridges, and a box of 45-caliber cartridges containing at least 25 cartridges,” confirming information published by the French weekly “Le Journal.” Du Dimanche.
He explained that the weapon that was used was a Colt 1911-45 pistol, which "looks worn out."
The incidents took place in a street near a Kurdish cultural center in a lively commercial neighborhood frequented by the Kurdish community.
The shooter had committed gun violence in the past.
Three people, two men and a woman, were killed in the shooting, and one man was seriously injured, and two others were less seriously injured.
The woman who was killed was Amina Kara, and she was a leader in the Kurdish women's movement in France, according to the Kurdish Democratic Council in France.
The movement's spokesman, Ajit Polat, said in a press conference on Friday that she had applied for political asylum, "which was rejected by the French authorities."
As for the two men who were killed, they are Abd al-Rahman Kizil, an "ordinary Kurdish citizen" who visits the cultural center "daily", and Mir Perwer, a Kurdish artist and political refugee who is "persecuted in Turkey because of his art."
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