Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/PARIS: France charged the suspected gunman on Monday with the previous week’s murder of three Kurds in Paris as hundreds of people marched in Paris to pay tribute to the victims.
Officials said that the 69-year-old suspect had confessed to a “pathological” hatred for foreigners and spent nearly a day in the psychiatric facility before being returned the police custody on Sunday.
A judicial source said that the judge charged the person with murder or attempted murder because of ethnicity, race, nationality, or religion, as well as for unauthorised procurement and possession of a weapon.
The shooting at the Kurdish cultural center and a nearby hairdressing salon on Friday sparked panic in the city’s bustling 10th district, house to numerous shops and hotels and a large Kurdish population.
Three others Wounded in Attack
According to the Agence France-Presse, three others had been wounded in the attack, but none were in a life-threatening condition, with one out of the hospital.
The violence has revived the trauma of the three unresolved murders of the Kurds in 2013 that many blame on Turkey.
The community has expressed anger at the services of the French force, saying they had done too little to prevent the shooting.
The frustration boiled over on Saturday, and the furious demonstrators clashed with French police in Paris for a second day after a tribute rally.
On Monday, hundreds of people marched in the 10th district, chanting “Our martyrs do not die” in Kurdish and demanding “truth and justice.”
