A few Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday. Paris to take responsibility assassination of three Kurdish activists ten years ago and to demand explanation for the attack on this community in the French capital on December 23, in which three more people lost their lives.
The concentration they attend 10,000 people, According to the Police Department and at least 25,000 according to the organizersit had a clear political content and took place between the Estación del Norte and the Plaza de la República.
Participants carried banners with photos of the victims. Described as “martyr”and Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, are also imprisoned in Turkey.
Turkish secret services
Turkey and especially the secret services They took part in placards, leaflets and speeches in the march, which took place without incident under the supervision of a strong safety net of police and gendarmes.
Organizers and participants believe that the Turkish secret services were behind the armed attack that took place on the night of 9-10 January 2013. Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Sylemez A few hundred meters from Gare du Nord, in the Kurdistan Information Center in the 10th district of Paris.
Investigators quickly arrested the alleged perpetrator of the massacre. Omer GuneyHe is a Turkish national, but died of cancer in prison at the end of 2016, a few weeks before the hearing, which was hoped to clarify whether a triple murder had been committed and whether there was a plan abroad.
The families of the women tried to restart the judicial process with a complaint in 2017, for which they provided the necessary elements. They showed the responsibility of Turkish intelligence.
no attribution
This thesis has been considered since the first instruction, but did not raise any charges There is an impression desired by the French authorities among the Kurdish and Kurdish community. It covers a possible intervention by Ankara.
This was revived with the attack on 23 December in front of the Kurdish cultural center, in which three people were killed and three others were injured in the same neighborhood next to the North Station of X district.
On this occasion, the author – immediately arrested – William MaletA 69-year-old Frenchman with multiple criminal records was released from prison a few days ago and accused of attacking a refugee camp in 2021.
Malet was returned to prison on charges of racist murders, but investigators found no links to extremist organizations.
Protesters this Saturday with their banners They wanted “Truth and Justice” they also showed their dissatisfaction with the progress of the investigations by directly criticizing: “France is the country where the Turkish secret services have rights”.