Community violence in the Marseille city.
The Consulate General of Turkey in Marseille was the target, on the night of Thursday to Friday, of several jets of Molotov cocktails,
Le Figaro
learned from a police source this Friday, January 6, confirming information from BFM Provence.
Occurring around two o'clock in the morning, the attack was reported to the police by several witnesses, alerted by the sound of broken glass and flames rising from the walls of the building, located avenue du Prado (8th arrondissement).
Four individuals are spotted at the scene of the crime, before they flee.
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“Very reluctant”
To find them, two agents from the Anti-Crime Brigade of the southern division of Marseille (BAC Sud) are deployed.
They discover after a few minutes two suspicious individuals, with a determined step.
As they approached, the police noticed that they "
smell of sulphur
", we are told.
The crew then begins their arrest.
The two young men, "
very recalcitrant
", struggle.
While one of them is overpowered, the second flees towards Place Castellane.
The BAC decides to chase the fugitive, who joins two other suspects on the way.
The police eventually manage to arrest another individual from the small group.
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Two suspects are still at large.
In police custody, the two arrested confessed that they were Kurds.
They would not be known to the police.
An investigation has been opened.
This attack comes more than two weeks after the assassination of three people in a Kurdish cultural center in Paris on December 23.
The main suspect, William M., claimed to have “
always wanted to murder migrants, foreigners
”.
The Kurdish community remains skeptical about this “
racist
” motive.
She rather accused, through the voice of her associative spokespersons in the aftermath of the tragedy, the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at war against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The facts took place on avenue du Prado, in Marseille.
Google Maps screenshot.