Kurds killed in Paris: what the suspect said in police custody
While in police custody, the main suspect admitted “resenting all migrants” and the Kurds for not having “killed” Daesh fighters.
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Lhe sequence of events that led to the death of three Kurdish people on Friday December 23 in Paris is becoming clearer, as are the reasons that led the assailant to open fire. The suspect admitted in police custody to a “hatred of foreigners that has become completely pathological” since he was the victim of a burglary in 2016. The man described himself as “depressive” and “suicidal”, specifying that he had “Always wanted to murder migrants, foreigners” since this burglary, explains the Paris prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, in a press release.
The 69-year-old suspect, no custody was lifted for health reasons, left the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters on Sunday and will be presented to an examining magistrate on Monday for a possible indictment, said the prosecution. He admitted to the investigators having felt a “hatred of pathological foreigners” and was replaced in police custody (Sunday) at 4:25 p.m., said the prosecution.
The man resented “all migrants”
He said he returned to his parents’ home – where he was staying – and decided to walk to rue d’Enghien, “where he knows the Kurdish center is”. Indicating that he is angry “at all migrants”, he explains that he attacked victims he did not know, specifying that he is angry with the Kurds for having “constituted prisoners during their fight against Daesh instead of killing them” , underlines the Paris prosecutor.
The investigations used that he therefore went before the Kurdish cultural center “armed with a Colt 45 automatic pistol of 11-43 caliber and carrying numerous ammunition”. This is where the man opened fire successively on a woman and two men present in front of the cultural center. “Two died instantly. The third victim died after taking refuge in a Kurdish restaurant across the street,” the statement said.
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Then, the respondent continued his progression to the hairdresser-barber located at number 7 of the same street, where he shot and injured three men. “Controlled and disarmed by one of the victims, he was arrested at 11:40 a.m. in possession of his weapon, 4 magazines containing a total of 14 ammunition, a box of 25 ammunition and a bag containing a glove” , says Laure Beccuau.
Five of the six victims are of Turkish nationality, the sixth is of French nationality. The three injured victims are now out of danger. Two of them, still hospitalized, are injured in the thigh and have seen their total incapacity for work (ITT) provisionally fixed at thirty days. The 3rd injured victim was discharged from hospital and his ITT could not be discharged at this stage.
Transferred to the psychiatric infirmary
The man was immediately placed in police custody on the counts of murder, attempted murder, violence with a weapon and violations of the legislation on weapons, all of these offenses being committed due to membershipreal or supposed, victims to an alleged race, ethnicity, nation or religion.
The prime suspect ultimately said he intended to use all the ammunition and kill himself with the last bullet. He therefore indicates that his only regret is “not having been able to commit suicide, adding that he had always said that, if he committed suicide one day, he would “carry enemies to the grave” and specifying that by “enemies he meant “all non-European foreigners”. ” The investigation continues in order to further clarify the sequence of events, the motivations of the respondent, the circumstances in which the weapon and ammunition came into possession, to restore the statements of witnesses, injured victims and relatives of deceased victims, and to “To deepen the personality elements of the respondent as well as his environment”, concluded the Paris prosecutor.