Skirmishes broke out between demonstrators and the police at the sidelines of a rally organised on Saturday in Paris to pay tribute to the 3 Kurds killed through a gunman within the French capital yesterday.
At least 4 automobiles have been overturned, together with a minimum of one set on hearth, and rubbish cans burned on Boulevard du Temple, close to Place de l. a. République. The safety forces, centered through projectile jets, answered through firing tear gasoline canisters.
Several hundred other folks accumulated at noon to pay tribute to the 3 Kurds killed and 3 others wounded the day earlier than through a 69-year-old guy shot close to a Kurdish cultural centre.
In the gang, many demonstrators have been waving flags of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK, or protecting footage of 3 Kurdish activists murdered in January 2013 in Paris.
“What we feel is sorrow and incomprehension because this is not the first time this has happened,” mentioned Esra, a 23-year-old scholar who didn’t need to give her circle of relatives title, her eyes reddened through tears.
A minute’s silence was once seen, with tune, in reminiscence of the sufferers and “all the Kurds who died for freedom”.
Several demonstrators provide on Saturday denounced the taking pictures rampage as an “injustice” and a “terrorist” and “political” act.
The 69-year-old French suspect, who had dedicated armed violence up to now, mentioned all through his arrest that he acted as a result of he was once “racist”.
Earlier within the morning, representatives of the Kurdish group were gained through the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nunez.
“There is no doubt in our minds that these are political murders. The fact that our associations are targeted is a terrorist and political act”, mentioned Agit Polat, spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDKF), after the assembly.
He additionally regretted a “lack of security” on the scene of the taking pictures, whose safety is “the responsibility of the French authorities”.
The suspect, whose custody was once prolonged on Saturday, is suspected of getting opened hearth on Friday within the tenth arrondissement of Paris, killing 3 other folks and wounding 3 others at a Kurdish cultural centre in a hectic buying groceries house well-liked by the Kurdish group.
