Three dead in shots in Paris – mayor speaks of right-wing activists as perpetrators
Created: 2022-12-23Updated: 2022-12-23, 3:58 p.m
There was a bloody incident in Paris.
There are dead and injured.
The police report an arrest.
Details about the suspect are emerging.
The news ticker.
Shots
in
Paris
: Dead and injured are reported in the center of the city.
Police arrest
suspect
:
A 69-year-old is said to have committed the crime.
Racism
as a
motive
?
The public prosecutor's office is investigating the case.
This news ticker about the
bloody deed in Paris
is updated regularly.
Update from December 23, 3:34 p.m .:
The bloody deed in Paris with deaths and injuries bears the handwriting of a right-wing extremist for the mayor.
"The Kurdish community, and through it all Parisians, have been targeted by these killings, committed by a far-right activist," Anne Hidalgo wrote on Twitter.
Emergency services seal off the crime scene after the shots in Paris.
© IMAGO / PanoramiC
“The Kurds, wherever they live, must be able to live in peace and security.
More than ever, Paris stands by her in these dark hours," she wrote.
According to district mayor Alexandra Cordebard, the arrested man opened fire in a Kurdish community center and a restaurant and hairdressing salon across the street.
Shots in Paris: the suspect is said to have been known to the police
Update from December 23, 2:40 p.m .:
As the broadcaster
France Info
reports, citing police circles, the suspect is known for two attempted killings.
The newspaper
Le Parisien
writes that the Frenchman attacked a migrant camp with a saber last year and injured several people there.
The man only got out of prison in mid-December and was under judicial supervision.
Update from December 23, 2:20 p.m .:
Another person died in the shots in the French capital Paris.
The Paris public prosecutor confirmed a third fatality.
The suspect is a 69-year-old Frenchman who was known to the police because of two previous murder attempts, police sources said.
He was known to police for two attempted murders.
About a year ago, he is said to have injured at least two migrants with a knife in Paris and destroyed several migrant tents, the prosecutor said.
It was determined, among other things, because of a racist motive.
After the bloody deed: firefighters bring a stretcher for the victims to the crime scene.
© Lewis Joly/AP/dpa
He is not on the secret service's list of endangered persons.
According to District Mayor Alexandra Cordebard, the man was taken to a hospital with injuries.
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Three dead in Paris: investigations into murder and serious violence
The public prosecutor's office is investigating because of murder and serious violence.
The judicial police is initially responsible, not the terror prosecutor's office.
"I saw two police officers go into a hairdressing salon where two people were lying on the ground, their legs were injured," said a local resident.
"There were seven or eight shots, there is panic," said an eyewitness to the
AFP
news agency .
"We saw an old white man who went to the Kurdish center and fired there," said Romain, a chef at a nearby restaurant.
The man then went to a neighboring hairdressing salon.
"We got ourselves to safety with the staff in the restaurant," he added.
The Berlin-based Kurdish Center for Public Relations, which claims to be in contact with the Paris Kurdish center near which the bloody crime occurred, said that Paris was assuming a "targeted attack on the Kurdish community".
Bloody deed in Paris: Police and emergency services secure the crime scene.
© Thomas Samson/AFP
Bloody deed in Paris: 69-year-old arrested as a suspect
Update from December 23, 1:10 p.m .:
The age of the arrested suspect is now given as 69 years.
Emmanuel Grégoire, who works for the Paris mayor, thanked the security forces for their quick action.
His thoughts are with the victims and witnesses of the attack.
The district mayor wanted to go to the scene of the incident.
First report from December 23
-
Paris - Several people were injured by gunshots in central Paris.
A man in his 60s was arrested, police sources said on Friday.
"There were seven or eight shots, there is panic," said an eyewitness to the
AFP
news agency .
The police called for people to avoid the area around Rue d'Enghien in the 10th arrondissement.
However, there is no longer any danger.
Shots in Paris: Prosecutors report two fatalities
As the
AFP
news agency further reports, citing the public prosecutor's office, there are at least two fatalities and four people injured.
Two of them are said to be in mortal danger.
It is a small street with many restaurants, not far from the Grande Boulevards with their famous department stores.
The fire brigade and rescue workers were on duty.
France is always in the headlines for bloody deeds.
In October 2020, for example, a woman was beheaded with a knife in a church in Nice.
The perpetrators had acted out of Islamist motives.
