Three people were killed in the attack on a Kurdish cultural center in Paris on Friday. The suspect is a 69 -year -old Frenchman, already targeted by a racist assault against migrants a year ago. Helts opposed the police against Kurdish demonstrators a few hours after the killing.
by Soren Seelow and Christophe Ayad
Three people were killed and three others injured, Friday, December 23 at the end of the morning, after a man opened fire on rue d’Enghien, in the 10
The Ahmet-Kaya Cultural Center, a rallying point of the community in the capital, welcomes the Kurdish Democratic Center of France (CDKF) which is the main emanation of the Kurdish Nationalist Movement in France and the legal facade of the workers’ party Kurdistan (PKK), at war with the Turkish state and considered a terrorist organization by the European Union.
According to Kurdish sources, the shooter, equipped with a pistol and several chargers, killed three people on the steps and inside the cultural center. He even chased one of his victims who crossed the street to take shelter in a Kurdish restaurant, on the sidewalk opposite. After this first composure shootout, the assassin would have raised the rue d’Enghien, which was very busy, to rush into a hair salon frequented by Kurds. He fired again, injuring at least one person before the customers of the hairdresser-barbier the disargement and control him while waiting for the police, as shown by the video surveillance of the establishment.
One of the victims had fought against IS
According to a provisional assessment, the three deceased victims are a woman and two men. According to Polat, the spokesperson for the CDKF, the woman is Emine Kara, the head of the Kurdish women’s movement in France. She had fought and campaigned for thirty years in the four parts of Kurdistan, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran. According to Berivan Firat, a spokesperson for the CDKF, Emine Kara had taken part in the combat against the Islamic State (IS) organization, weapons in hand, during the reconquest of Rakka by the Kurdish forces supported by the international coalition. She had since asked for political asylum in France and had been denied refugee status by OFPRA, a decision which she had appealed.
The two men are a Kurdish singer, a political refugee in France, and an old regular from the Ahmet-Kaya cultural center. Among the three injured men, one is in absolute emergency and two others in relative emergency. The Paris prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation for assassinations and assassination attempts, entrusted to the Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police (DRPJ).
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