PARIS SHOOTING SUSPECT ADMITS ‘PATHOLOGICAL’ HATRED OF MIGRANTS

Mon 26 December 2022:

The 69-year-old Frenchman who is accused of shooting and killing three Kurds on Friday has admitted to having a “pathological” hatred of foreigners.

In the attack on a busy central Parisian Kurdish cafe and neighboring Kurdish cultural center, one woman and two men were killed.

The man, retired train driver named as William M., told police he had become “depressed” and “suicidal” after his home was burgled in 2016, the office of the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday.

However, as per the prosecutor a search of the suspect’s parent’s home, where he lived, did not garner any potential links to the extremist ideology. The suspect as per AFP had first planned an attack Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb of the French capital, with a large immigrant population, but had later abandoned the plan.

Describing himself as depressive and suicidal the man also shared his plan to kill himself using the last bullet from his attack.

As per the prosecutor the man was recently released from detention while awaiting trial for another attack. Last year, using a sabre (a special kind of sword) he attacked a migrant camp.

The man after his arrest on Friday was shifted to a psychiatric facility on Saturday. On Sunday afternoon, he was released from the hospital and was put in police custody. On Monday, he will be presented before an investigating magistrate.

The recent shooting has rekindled the trauma of three unresolved murders of Kurds in 2013 that many have blamed on Turkiye (formerly Turkey). Many in the community have blamed French Security Services saying that they did “too little” to prevent the shooting. Representatives of the Kurdish community have urged for the Friday attack to be considered a terrorist attack.

Saturday saw protests and clashes between protestors and police in central Paris and in Syria, hundreds of Kurds on Sunday protested in solidarity with the victim as due to the shooting anger boiled over.

Friday’s attack came almost 10 years after the murder of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital – an unresolved crime.

The community was again “afraid”, having been “traumatised” by the January 2013 murders, said a lawyer for the Kurdish democratic council in France.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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