Several hundred people met on Monday noon on rue d’Enghien on rue La Fayette, to pay tribute to the three Kurds killed by shot on Friday. Among them, many Kurds, and rare French people who have come to support.
by minh dréan
Flowers and portraits of the victims were placed on the sidewalk in front of the Kurdish cultural center, located at 16 rue d’Enghien, in Paris, Monday, December 26. A little before noon, the first demonstrators arrive, greet each other and hug in their arms. Then, the procession sets off around 147 rue La Fayette, in the same 10
Youssouf (no demonstrator wished to give his name), Kurdish 38, came with his 3 -year -old son. It is difficult to express so much the emotion is great. “I don’t want him to feel in insecurity,” he explains. He remembers the “terrible” assassinations of ten years ago. “I was already on the street, in 2013 … I didn’t think it could happen again, not here. I’m afraid for my son,” he says.
“We are threatened with death, insists Acts Polat, spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council in France. We live and work in France, in a democracy, in a rule of law, however, we, the Kurds, we do not We are not taken into consideration, we are not protected. Again, we are touched in the heart, he denounces. Three of our friends have been executed. We know that this is a terrorist act , not racist. Terrorist. We will continue to fight and claim the truth. “
In tight rows, the demonstrators join La Fayette Street, their Kurdish flags fly in the wind while the rain is becoming stronger. All are determined to defend their “identity”. Redin, 54 -year -old, manifests with friends. “I feel like someone without country, without identity, as a stranger attacked everywhere,” he says, very moved.
“I wanted to provide my support”
Some young people have also met. Ali, 26, is also accompanied by three friends. “The youth may even be more angry than the older ones, we grew up in France rocked by the memory of the triple assassination of 2013, he says. Ten years later, nothing has changed. do not move forward. We just want to live our life like the others. “
of rare non -Kurdish demonstrators are there too, like Josiane, the sixties, resident of the 19 e arrondissement: “I came for this event to be forgotten and that he Is not treated as a “simple” news. “” I wanted to provide my support to the Kurdish community, it takes me to the guts “, abounds Aline, 66 years old, born in the 10
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