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FranceKurds killed in Paris: Suspect’s police custody lifted for health reasons
A 69-year-old man suspected of murdering three Kurds in Paris is no longer in police custody. He was admitted to the police headquarters psychiatric hospital on Saturday evening.
Three people were killed and three others were injured in the killings. Demonstrations that followed were halted by violence, but tributes were paid to the victims this Saturday.
AFP
Suspected custody of French pensioner Killed three Kurds In Paris on Friday he was fired on Saturday evening for health reasons because he was “racist”. A protest day As a tribute to victims of violence.
“The doctor who examined the defendant at the end of this afternoon declared that the health of the person concerned is not compatible with the level of police custody”, informed the Paris prosecutor’s office at the end of the day. Further, “The respondent was taken to the mental hospital at the police headquarters. Therefore, the police custody has been lifted till his appearance before the investigating judge, when his health permits. A new update on the situation will be released on Sunday.
The 69-year-old suspect, a retired train driver with French citizenship, opened fire on Friday outside a Kurdish cultural center located in a shopping district popular with the Kurdish community in central Paris.
Linked to a terrorist movement?
Interior Minister Gerald Dormanin said on Friday that the suspect, who frequented the firing range, “liked to attack foreigners” and “apparently acted alone”. “It is not certain that the killer who wanted to kill these people (…) did it specifically for the Kurds,” he underlined. For his part, Paris prosecutor Laure Pecuault pointed out that “nothing at this point allows us to recognize any connection of this man with an extremist ideological movement”.
On the morning of the events, “He didn’t say anything when he left (…) He’s crazy. He’s crazy,” the suspect’s 90-year-old father told AFP, describing him as “calm” and “recovered”.
Reminder of criminal records
The alleged shooter has been charged with premeditated and racist violence with a weapon since December 2021 and contempt for acts committed on December 8, 2021. Suspected of stabbing migrants and slashing their tents at a camp in Paris. After a year in pre-trial detention, he was released on December 12 in accordance with French law and placed under judicial supervision, according to the prosecutor.
He was given a six-month suspended sentence in 2017 for possessing a prohibited weapon and last June, 2016, a twelve-month sentence for armed violence against robbers.
(AFP)
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