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| 3 dead, 4 injured in Paris shooting UPDATE#2: Elderly Frenchman twice arrested for attacking foreigners arrested while Kurds riot | |||
| 2022-12-23 | |||
| [NY Post] 24 hour rule At least three people were killed and four others injured in a shooting in central Paris on Friday, the local mayor said. An unidentified 69-year-old man opened fire at the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish cultural center in the city’s 10th arrondissement, Le Parisien reported.
The alleged gunman, a retired train conductor, was arrested shortly after the shooting. Prosecutors are now pursuing a case for murder, voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated violence. One local shopkeeper heard seven or eight shots going off, according to The Guardian. "It was just complete panic — everyone locked themselves in," she told Agence France-Presse. No motive has been released for the attack. Parisian police said that an investigation is underway, and asked those nearby to avoid the area, which includes a major shopping district as well as the Grand Rex, often celebrated as Europe’s largest movie theater.
His motives remain unclear, but his identity and his target immediately raised suspicions that the shooting could have been racially motivated. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has repeatedly warned about the danger of Mathilde Panot, parliamentary head of the hard-left La Belle France Unbowed political party, immediately pointed the finger at the far-right, calling it a "racist attack." The shooter was injured and "has been taken to hospital," the mayor of 10th district, Alexandra Cordebard, said at the scene where police have sealed off surrounding roads.
The shots shortly before midday caused panic in rue d’Enghien in the trendy 10th district of the capital, a bustling area of shops and restaurants that is home to a large Kurdish population. A 69-year-old suspect who has previously been charged with racist violence was wounded and arrested. Hours after the attack, clashes broke out as officers used teargas in an attempt to disperse Kurdish demonstrators as they tried to break through a police cordon deployed to protect Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin who had arrived at the scene. Demonstrators threw objects at police while voicing fury over an attack they saw as deliberate and which French security services had done too little to prevent. Several cars parked in the area as well as police vehicles had their windows smashed as protesters threw bricks. Some of the protesters shouted slogans against the Turkish government. “Erdogan, terrorist,” they chanted, in reference to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “Turkish state, assassin.” Speaking to reports near the scene, Darmanin said the attacker was clearly targeting foreigners, but that police don’t have evidence at this stage that he was specifically aiming to hurt Kurds. Darmanin is holding a special meeting Friday night to assess threats targeting the Kurdish community in France The Kurdish Democratic Council of France (CDK-F), which uses the cultural center as its headquarters, said in a statement it considered the shooting to be a “terror attack.” The gunman, named as William M. in the French media, had already been linked to two previous attempted murders in 2016 and 2021. The retired train driver was initially convicted over the first case in the multicultural Seine-Saint-Denis suburb of Paris, but freed on appeal, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau told reporters without giving further details. In the second case, he was charged with racist violence after allegedly attacking migrants in tents in the Bercy area of the city in December 2021, Beccuau added. At least two migrants suffered injuries from a sword used in the assault, a police source told AFP at the time. Authorities are likely to face questions in the coming days over why the gunman had been recently released on bail given his criminal record. The attacker attended a shooting range in a sports club, and had several registered weapons, Darmanin said. He added that the attacker is French and was not on any radicalism watch lists, or known for involvement in any extreme-right or other political movements. The minister has repeatedly warned about the danger of violent far-right groups in France. Last month, 13 people from far-right political circles were ordered to stand trial for allegedly plotting to attack Macron. | |||
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #3 Three dead, and Mohammedans riot In Paris, though Allah knows why, For they murder their own Sans sursis... Hold the phone! "Sure it's just that we w... Frogs Want our infidel dogs Fed their steady Mohammedan diet!" |
| Posted by: Spats Slimp5311 2022-12-23 20:36 |
| #2 Could be a turk or just tired of their shit. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-12-23 16:58 |
| #1 Chicago on the Seine? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2022-12-23 12:03 |