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Attack against Kurds in Paris: white marches planned for the next few days

2023-01-03T16:40:58.590Z


Three members of this community were murdered on December 23 in the tenth arrondissement of Paris by a man armed with a revolver.


A white march will be held on Wednesday rue d'Enghien in Paris, on the site of the attack which left three dead, all members of the Kurdish community, on December 23.

It was led by a man who opened fire inside the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya and a hair salon located in the 10th arrondissement before being disarmed and arrested.

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Attack against Kurds: how the suspect was subdued in a hair salon

The track of the racist crime, retained at this stage by the investigators does not convince the community which keeps in mind the painful memory of the murder of three Kurdish activists in the same district, ten years ago almost to the day.

A case in which Ankara's intelligence services are suspected.

A "great march" of the Kurdish community, initially planned for the tenth anniversary of the death of these three PKK activists, will also leave Saturday from the Gare du Nord in Paris.

Tribute ceremony this Tuesday

This Tuesday, thousands of members of the Kurdish community gathered in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d'Oise) for the highly political funeral of Abdurrahman Kizil, Mir Perwer (a Kurdish singer and political refugee), and 'Emine Kara (leader of the Kurdish Women's Movement in France), the three victims of the December 23 attack.

Kurds traveled from all over France and even from European countries to attend these funerals, coming with buses specially chartered by the community.

The organizers have set up a large security service, in addition to the security forces deployed outside.

In this same place of Villiers-le-Bel, chosen because of the presence of a large Kurdish community in the Val-d'Oise and its ease of access, the funerals of the three Kurdish activists who were murdered had already been held. in January 2013.

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The suspect of the December 23 attack, William Malet, 69, already known to the courts for acts of violence and who had just come out of pre-trial detention for another case, told investigators of a "hatred pathological foreigners" and said he wanted to "murder migrants", according to the Paris prosecutor's office.

Indicted on December 26 for murder and attempted murder on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nation or religion, this retired train driver was imprisoned in the process.

Source: leparis

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