Paris shooting

Three people died and four others were injured after a gunman opened fire at a Kurdish community center, and a nearby restaurant and barber shop in Paris on ...

“We are evaluating the facts to know if the event should be qualified as an act of terrorism,” the prosecutor’s office said. “When it comes to racist motivations, of course these elements are part of the investigation that was just launched,” Beccuau said. The suspected attacker has been arrested.

French president Emmanuel Macron tweets his sympathies to the Kurdish community, who he said had been the target of a "heinous" attack.

"It might be shocking for someone who has never had a worry in their life. Kurdish leaders called for better protection for their community, a theme for Kurds in France since the high-profile killings of three Kurdish women a decade ago. A gunman killed three people at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in central Paris on Friday (local time), prompting scores of protesters to take to nearby streets.

A shooter killed two people and wounded four others in a gun attack near a Kurdish cultural centre...

Reuters was not immediately able to contact the suspect's representatives. Authorities said they had arrested a 69-year-old man and the incident was now over. The Paris prosecutor said the suspect was previously known to the authorities and that a possible racist dimension to the attack would be investigated.

Paris: A gunman shot dead three people at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in central Paris on Friday, prompting scores of protesters to ...

Turkey’s military also recently launched a series of air and artillery strikes against Syrian Kurdish militant targets in northern Syria. A Turkish citizen was charged with their killing, although suspicion also fell on the Turkish intelligence service. The worker said that he saw the assailant wound three people before two passersby in the salon intervened and stopped him. It also rattled merchants in the bustling neighbourhood in central Paris on the eve of Christmas weekend and put officers on alert for more violence. Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said terrorism prosecutors were in contact with investigators but had not given any indication of a terrorist motive. Shocked members of the city’s Kurdish community called it a terrorist act.

Three people were killed and three others were wounded in the attack while the suspect was arrested.

A Turkish citizen was charged with their killing, although suspicion also fell on the Turkish intelligence service. Beccuau said three people hit in the shooting have died, one is in critical condition and two others are hospitalised with less serious injuries. Shocked members of the city's Kurdish community called it a terrorist act. The man was not on any radicalism watch lists. Thoughts for the victims, those who are fighting to survive, to their families and loved ones." Skirmishes erupted in the neighbourhood a few hours after the shooting, as members of the Kurdish community shouted slogans against the Turkish government, and police fired tear gas to disperse the increasingly agitated crowd.

Kurdish activists, left-wing politicians and anti-racism groups are holding a protest in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center a ...

Turkey’s military also recently launched a series of air and artillery strikes against Syrian Kurdish militant targets in northern Syria. The ministry did not include 2020 in its statistics because of successive pandemic lockdowns that year. He is facing potential charges of murder and attempted murder with a racist motive, the Paris prosecutor's office said Saturday.

Protesters clash with police following Friday's shootings, which killed three people.

Police continue to question the man, a retired train driver. Unrest began soon after the shootings. The same news agency was told that the man launched his attack with a "much-used" pistol and was found with a box of at least 25 cartridges and "two or three" loaded magazines.

Hundreds of people converged on Place de la République in the French capital, some waving flags of the Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK as a show of solidarity.

"There is no doubt in our minds that these are political murders. He also regretted a "lack of security" at the scene of the shooting, whose security is "the responsibility of the French authorities". Skirmishes broke out between demonstrators and the police on the sidelines of a rally organised on Saturday in Paris to pay tribute to the three Kurds killed by a gunman in the French capital the previous day.

Clashes broke out for a second day in Paris on Saturday between police and Kurdish protestors angry at the killing of three members of their community.

[Paris](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/paris/) [police](https://www.france24.com/en/tag/police/) chief Laurent Nunez said there had been a sudden violent turn in the protest but it was not yet clear why. "We are not being protected at all. In 10 years, six Kurdish activists have been killed in the heart of Paris in broad daylight," Berivan Firat, a spokesperson for the CDK-F, told BFM TV at the demonstration. A gunman carried out the killings at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby cafe on Friday in a busy part of Paris' 10th district, stunning a community preparing to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the unresolved murder of three activists. "The doctor who examined the suspect today in the late afternoon said that the state of health of the person concerned was not compatible with the measure of custody," the Paris prosecutor said. Clashes broke out for a second day in Paris on Saturday between police and Kurdish protestors angry at the killing of three members of their community.