The day after the attack which claimed the lives of two men and a woman near a Kurdish cultural center in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, the Paris prosecutor's office announced on Saturday December 24 that the doctor had judged that the The suspect's state of health "was not compatible with the police custody measure" started just after the events and that he had been taken "to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters".

His police custody was "lifted pending his presentation before an investigating judge when his state of health allows it", added the prosecution, which must communicate on Sunday.

Investigators are continuing their investigations.

On Saturday, a demonstration in support of the Kurdish community took place on the Place de la République at the call of the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F).

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The taking of the privileged racist crime

Since the attack, the track of the racist crime is privileged.

The suspect, a 69-year-old retired train driver of French nationality, said upon his arrest that he acted because he was "racist", according to a source familiar with the matter. 

On Saturday, the Paris prosecutor's office added "the racist motive of the facts" to the investigation opened for assassinations, attempted assassinations, violence with a weapon and violations of the legislation on weapons.

Based on the first elements of the investigation and the statements of the sexagenarian, the prosecution considered that the facts had been committed "because of the membership or non-membership, real or supposed, of the victims to an alleged race , ethnic group, nation or specific religion".

 "The addition of this circumstance does not modify the maximum penalty incurred, which remains life imprisonment," said the public prosecutor.

Friday shortly before noon, the man opened fire with a handgun in the rue d'Enghien, near the Ahmet-Kaya cultural center, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

A woman, Emine Kara, a leader of the Kurdish Women's Movement in France, and two men, including artist and political refugee Mir Perwer, were killed and three other men injured, one seriously.

With AFP

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