Me David Andic, lawyer for the families of the three Kurds killed in Paris on December 23, told Le

Parisien

on Sunday that he "deeply regrets" that the anti-terrorist prosecutor's office did not take up the investigation given the many "grey areas".

"I deeply regret that the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) did not take up this case, which is therefore treated as a common law file, a simple news item," said Me Andic.

“Last year, conversely, Kurdish activists had tagged the Turkish consulate in Boulogne-Billancourt before setting off fireworks… and the Pnat had taken up the investigation!

“, he compared.

“In the present case, it is very damaging that the means of investigation likely to be implemented in the context of a terrorist case are not deployed.

This risks harming the preservation of evidence,” he said.

"Shadow areas"

Me Andic noted many “grey areas” in this case: the fact that the suspect William Malet attacked, according to him, specifically the headquarters of the Kurdish Democratic Council of France;

how he got his gun;

the people he met during his year spent in detention;

what he was doing in Saint-Denis before going to rue d'Enghien...

For the lawyer, by accusing the Kurds of having "made prisoners during their fight against Daesh instead of killing them", the suspect "seeks to cover his tracks by posing as a madman and attributing to himself a hatred that he describes himself as ''pathological''”.

"No one, even on the far right, makes such criticisms of the Kurds," adds Me Andic, also counsel for the Kurdish Democratic Council of France (CDK-F) who demonstrated on Saturday in Paris in tribute to three Kurdish activists murdered there. almost ten years ago in Paris.



The triple murder committed on December 23 aroused the anger of the Kurds of France who, despite the statements of the suspect and the first elements of the investigation delivered by the prosecution, continue to implicate Turkey.

The Kurdish community has multiplied the gatherings in the capital since these crimes.

Violent incidents had punctuated one of them, on December 24.

The shooter, William Malet, a 69-year-old Frenchman, was already known to the courts for acts of violence.

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