Thibaud Hue 08h27, January 04, 2023

Twelve days after the killing, 10,000 people attended the funeral of the three Kurds killed in Paris on Tuesday before Christmas.

In the crowd, Kurds came from all over France and even from abroad, for a last tribute.

The community, still in shock, remains convinced that Turkey is hiding behind this attack.

Anger, pain, but always this certainty that the Turkish secret services are responsible.

Despite the profile of a racist killer, an isolated attack, many members of the Kurdish community still see Erdogan's hand behind this shooting.

This is the case of Naïm: "He can be fascist, he can be racist, he can be anything he wants; but going to choose a Kurdish association in the heart of Paris is no coincidence for me. “, he confides.

"We all know that Ankara is behind this attack," he adds.

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For Bashir too, there is no doubt.

He says it's just a diversion.

"We want to close the file immediately to avoid overflows. It would have been a young man or a 40-year-old man, it would have been the same thing," he explains.

The community's suspicions are all the more acute since ten years ago, almost to the day, three Kurdish activists were murdered in the same 10th arrondissement of Paris.

A Turkish national, suspected of having acted on behalf of Ankara's intelligence services, died of cancer in 2016 in custody before his trial.

Rare dissenting voices

The shooter of the December 23 attack, a 69-year-old man, was indicted and then imprisoned.

For the moment, only the racist motive is retained by the investigation.

Dissenting voices are very rare on the subject within the community.

So Camille, a student, does not want to position herself.

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"These are hypotheses, we'll see. Me, I still trust French justice. There is not one scenario that suits me or another, if you like. I think that anyway, it is too early: it happened on December 23, I think it will take a little time”, she concedes.

The tributes will continue but all are waiting for one thing, a trial and the conviction of William, the alleged killer, for a terrorist attack.