Many Kurds refuse to believe in the version of an isolated shooter with racist motivations and denounce a “terrorist” act, questioning Turkey.
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Thousands of members of the Kurdish community are expected on Tuesday, January 3, in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d’Oise) for the funeral of Abdurrahman Kizil, Mir Perwer, a Kurdish Political Refugee singer, and Emine Kara, head of the Kurdish Women Movement in France.
They were assassinated by shot on December 23 in front of the Ahmet-Kaya cultural center in rue d’Enghien (10 e arrondissement). The shooter, William M., was disarmed and arrested in stride.
Before the investigators, the 69 -year -old man, already known to justice for violence and who just emerged from pre -trial detention for another case, expressed a “hatred of pathological foreigners” and said that he wanted to “murder migrants”, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
indicted on December 26, in particular for assassination and attempted assassination due to race, ethnicity, nation or religion, this retired train driver was imprisoned in stride. But many Kurds refuse to believe in the version of an isolated shooter with racist motivations and denounce a “terrorist” act, questioning Turkey.
Two steps planned in Paris, Wednesday and Saturday
The community will be collected in the afternoon in Villiers-le-Bel in front of the remains of Abdurrahman Kizil, Mir Perwer and Emine Kara. “This ceremony will be an opportunity for those who wish to pay a final tribute (…) before the bodies of the deceased are repatriated to their native land” for their burial, explains the Kurdish Kurdish Democratic Council on its website (Cdkf).