The suspect in the murder of three Kurds in Paris told investigators about his “hatred of foreigners,” the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday.
The 69yearold man was arrested on Friday (23rd) afterwards shoot two men and a woman in a Kurdish cultural center and a Kurdish café in Paris’ 10th arrondissement.
The deaths shocked a community preparing for the 10th anniversary of the unsolved murder of three activists and sparked protests that led to clashes with police.
The suspect, under crossexamination, said a breakin at his home in 2016 sparked a “xenophobia that had become downright pathological,” prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement.
Depressed and suicidal
The man described himself as depressed and suicidal and said he planned to kill himself with a final bullet after the attack, according to prosecutors.
A search of the suspect’s family home, where he lived, found no evidence of links to extremist ideology, she said, adding that he first scouted a suburb of the French capital for potential victims but abandoned the plan after he found few people. on the neighborhood.
Kurdish officials have called for Friday’s shots to be treated as a terrorist attack.
The suspect remained in a psychiatric ward on Sunday after his questioning was interrupted on Saturday for medical reasons, prosecutors said.
Of the other three injured in the shooting, two are still hospitalized but not lifethreatening, he added.
Prosecutors had previously said the suspect was recently released from custody while awaiting trial for a saber attack on a migrant camp in Paris a year ago.
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