French authorities decided on Saturday to lift the detention order for the suspect who killed 3 Kurds in Paris and to transfer him to a psychiatric hospital. While police arrested 11 people as they participated in angry protests in response to the attack, information judicial reports revealed that the attacker had a criminal record, while his father provided information on his behavior.
The French prosecutor said the detention order for the suspect in the killing of 3 Kurds in Paris had been lifted and he was transferred to a police psychiatric hospital. He added: ‘The doctor who examined the suspect today concluded that the state of health of the person concerned is not compatible with the detention procedure…Therefore, the detention procedure has been lifted pending presentation to an investigating judge when his health conditions allow it”. underlining that the investigation continues.
The man confirmed that he had been fired for being “racist”, according to a source close to the ongoing investigation.
In this context, the Paris public prosecutor’s office added, on Saturday, “the racial reasons underlying the facts” to the investigations which focus on allegations of murder, attempted murder and armed violence.
“The addition of this order does not change the maximum possible sentence, which remains life imprisonment,” the prosecution said.
The incidents took place on a street near a Kurdish cultural center in a commercial district frequented by the Kurdish community. 3 people, two men and a woman, were killed in the shootout, one man was seriously injured and two others were less seriously injured.
The identities of the dead
The woman killed in the attack was Amina Kara, leader of the Kurdish women’s movement in France, according to the Kurdish Democratic Council in France. The movement’s spokesman, Ajit Polat, told a press conference on Friday that he had applied for political asylum, “which was rejected by the French authorities”.
As for the two men killed, they are Abd al-Rahman Kizil, an “ordinary Kurdish citizen” who visits the cultural center “daily”, and Mir Perwer, an artist and Kurdish political refugee who is “persecuted in Turkey because of his art”, according to the same source.
A large number of members of the Kurdish community have expressed their anger at the French security services, saying they had not done enough to prevent the shooting.
arrested and injured
For its part, French police said they arrested 11 people on Saturday during clashes that erupted between security forces and demonstrators protesting against the attack.
These events came on the heels of a demonstration organized by the Kurdish community and their solidarity in Republic Square, in the center of the capital, Paris, to condemn the bloody attack, before it escalated into clashes between crowds of demonstration participants and the safety.
A police spokesman said 31 of its members were lightly injured, while one of the protesters was wounded in the head.
A march was organized in Marseille which was attended by around 1,500 people and took place in a peaceful atmosphere, according to the police.
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the “shameful attack” which “targeted Kurds in France”. He asked the Paris police chief to receive the leaders of the Kurdish community on Saturday.
judicial record
The murderer, who was slightly wounded in the face during his arrest, is known to the judiciary. He was sentenced last June to 12 months in prison for committing acts of violence with a weapon in 2016. He has appealed the sentence.
He was also charged in December 2021 with acts of violence of a racist nature, premeditated use of weapons and damaging acts committed on December 8, 2021.
In this second case, he is suspected of assaulting migrants in a camp in Paris with a knife and vandalizing their tents, a police source said at the time.
Paris prosecutor Laure Picot said that after a year of pretrial detention, he was recently released and placed under judicial supervision.
In 2017, the man was sentenced to a 6-month suspended prison sentence for possession of a weapon.
On the other hand, however, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanan said he was not known in the archives of the country’s intelligence and the Directorate General of Internal Security and “has not been classified as a member of the far right”.
The 90-year-old suspect’s father said his son “didn’t say anything when he left the house (on the morning of the incident… he’s insane),” noting that he tends to be “quiet” and “withdrawn.”
He explained that he “wanted to attack foreigners” and “it is clear that he acted alone”, noting that he frequented a shooting range.
