On Saturday, the French authorities decided to lift the detention order for the suspect who killed 3 Kurds in Paris and transferred him to a psychiatric hospital. While the police arrested 11 people while they were participating in angry protests in response to the attack, judicial information revealed that the attacker had a criminal record, while his father provided information about his behavior.

The French Public Prosecution said that the detention order for the suspect in the killing of 3 Kurds in Paris was lifted and he was transferred to a police psychiatric hospital.

She added, "The doctor who examined the suspect today concluded that the health status of the person concerned is not compatible with the detention procedure... Therefore, the detention procedure was lifted pending presentation to an investigating judge when his health condition allows," stressing that investigations are continuing.

The man confirmed that he fired because he was a "racist," as stated by a source close to the ongoing investigations.

In this context, the Public Prosecution Office in Paris added, on Saturday, “the racial motives behind the facts” to the investigations that focus on charges of murder, attempted murder and armed violence.

"The addition of this order does not change the maximum possible penalty, which remains life imprisonment," the prosecution said.

The incidents took place in a street near a Kurdish cultural center in a commercial neighborhood frequented by the Kurdish community.

3 people, two men and a woman, were killed in the shooting, and one man was seriously wounded and two others were less seriously injured.


The identities of the dead

The woman who was killed in the attack was Amina Kara, who 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," according to the same source.

A large number of members of the Kurdish community expressed their anger at the French security services, saying that they did not do enough to prevent the shooting.

arrests and injuries

For its part, the French police said that they arrested 11 people on Saturday during the clashes that erupted between the security forces and demonstrators protesting the attack.

These events came in the wake of a demonstration organized by the Kurdish community and their solidarity with them in Republic Square in the center of the capital, Paris, to condemn the bloody attack, before it turned into clashes between crowds of participants in the demonstration and the security forces.

A police spokesman said that 31 of its members were slightly injured, while one of the demonstrators was wounded in the head.

In Marseille, a march was organized in which about 1,500 people participated and took place in a peaceful atmosphere, according to the police.

For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the "disgraceful attack" that "targeted the Kurds in France."

He asked the Paris police chief to receive the leaders of the Kurdish community on Saturday.


criminal records

The shooter, who was slightly wounded in the face during his arrest, is known to the judiciary.

He was sentenced last June to 12 months in prison for committing acts of violence with a weapon in 2016. He has appealed the verdict.

He was also accused in December 2021 of committing acts of racist violence, premeditatedly using weapons and causing damage to acts committed on December 8, 2021.

In this second case, he is suspected of attacking migrants in a camp in Paris with a knife and vandalizing their tents, a police source said at the time.

Paris prosecutor Laure Picot said that after a one-year preventive detention, he was recently released and placed under judicial supervision.

In 2017, the man was given a suspended 6-month prison sentence for weapons possession.

On the other hand, however, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanan said that he was not known in the files of the country's intelligence and the General Directorate of Internal Security and "was not classified as a member of the extreme right."

The 90-year-old suspect's father stated that his son "didn't say anything when he left the house (on the morning of the accident... he's crazy)," noting that he tends to be "silent" and "closed".

He explained that he "wanted to attack foreigners," and "it is clear that he acted alone," noting that he used to frequent a shooting range.