He is the author of the gun attack that took the lives of three Kurds this Friday. Paris confessed to investigators that he had previously tried to carry out the massacre in neighboring Saint-Denis, and his intention was to commit suicide “after killing foreigners”.
According to a statement released this Sunday by Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, the 69-year-old assured him that he had traveled to Saint-Denis, a town north of Paris known for many people, on Friday morning. immigrantswith intent to kill as much as possible.
Although he carries the gun, the 11-43 caliber COLT 45, which he acquired five years ago and kept at his parents’ house, and a large number of ammunition, he didn’t find too many people and he gave up on his plan.
He returned to his neighborhood and remembered that there was a Kurdish cultural center there. the community he says he hates for taking soldiers Islamic State and i didn’t kill them.
He carried out the massacre by shooting two men and a woman there. The first two are in front of the cultural center, and the third is in an adjacent Kurdish restaurant, where he has recovered. Two died instantly, the third is in the hospital.he is.
Individual He went to a nearby barber, where he injured three more, where he was disarmed by one.until he was arrested by law enforcement at 11:40, according to the prosecutor’s account.
During his interrogation, which had to be postponed this Saturday due to the detainee’s psychiatric problems, described himself as “depressed” and “suicidal”.
He has assured that his hatred of strangers started when he suffered a robbery at his home in 2016. According to various media, then attacked one of the foreign thieves and was punished for itAt this point he began to hate all foreigners.
Prosecutor, “The only thing he regrets is that he didn’t commit suicide.“, something like that He plans to do it “someday” but “not before he gets as many enemies as possible”referring to “all non-European foreigners”.
The arrested person returned to his detention cell this Sunday and will appear before an investigating judge this Monday at the end of his preventive detention, always for prosecution, according to the prosecution.
The investigation has so far failed to detect any particular relationship with the Kurdish community, and neither the analysis of his phone nor the computer he had in his family’s home allowed any element to be identified, in particular, special ties to far-right ideology.
Investigations rule out the terrorist nature of the action for nowAs the representatives of the Kurdish community in France, who hold Turkey behind the events that took place nearly ten years after the three Kurdish militants were killed in cold blood very close to the place where they were shot, claimed.
The Kurds’ distrust of the French authorities, ailments in the last two days between protesters and law enforcement.
It took place near the site of the massacre after the visit of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin last Friday, and the next day after a commemorative demonstration at the nearby Place de la République.
In them, street furniture was damaged, containers and some motorcycles were set on fire, many vehicles were overturned and shop windows broken.
Total, 11 people were arrested and 31 agents had to be treated as injuredlike one of the protesters.