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Paris believes the Kurds were not the shooter's original target
2022-12-26
More on gun enthusiast William M, the retired train driver with the habit of being arrested for attacking foreigners, who shot up the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish cultural center a few days ago.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The Paris prosecutor's office announced the initial goals of the criminal who shot people

The citizen who opened fire on December 23 in Paris was originally planning a crime in the suburb of Saint-Denis, and not an attack on the Kurds. Such a statement was made on December 25 by the prosecutor's office of Paris.

During the interrogation of the detainee, it turned out that in the early morning the 69-year-old Frenchman went to Saint-Denis with weapons and ammunition in order to kill foreigners. However, he noticed too few people on the spot, and not suitable clothes on him prevented him from quickly reloading the weapon. Upon returning home, he headed for rue Enghien in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The detainee said that his task was to use up the ammunition and then commit suicide.

Recall that as a result of shooting in Paris, three Kurds, two men and a woman, were killed. Three more people were injured. After the arrest, the attacker declared himself a racist.

As REGNUM reported earlier, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin accused the Kurdistan Workers' Party of organizing the riots in Paris.
Additional notes on this story from Dawn:
Gay Paree prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Sunday the suspect "wanted to kill foreigners" after a burglary in his home in 2016.

The suspect said he initially wanted to kill people in the northern Gay Paree suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, which has a large immigrant population.

The French capital’s police chief Laurent Nunez told BFM television channel that 31 officers and one protester were maimed in the disturbances, while 11 people were arrested, "mainly for damage".

Hundreds of Kurds in Syria demonstrated on Sunday in solidarity with the victims.

The prosecutor said no links with an bully boy ideology were found following a search of his parents’ home, a computer and a smartphone.
69 yrs old and living with his parents: L-O-S-E-R
The suspect said he acquired his weapon four years ago from a member of a shooting club, hid it at his parents’ house and had never used it before.
More from An Nahar at 4:50 p.m. ET:
The M6 TV channel said one of its reporters had interviewed his parents, who are 91 and 93 years old.

"He is crazy, he's an idiot," said his father, according to an audio recording posted online. "He is a taciturn person who doesn't live like normal people do."

M6 said neighbours described the suspect, who had been living with his parents since his release from prison earlier this month, as "strange."

The 20 Minutes newspaper said he was born in March 1953 in Montreuil, an eastern suburb of Paris, and had been living in the capital's upmarket second arrondissement.

The paper also quoted an anonymous police officer as saying that the gunman had said "he didn't like Kurds" during his arrest when he "also made incoherent remarks."
Related:
10th arrondissement: 2022-12-25 Man, 69, suspected of killing three people at Kurdish cultural centre in Paris is transferred to a psychiatric unit as community holds vigil for victims of the shooting after another day of clashes with riot police
10th arrondissement: 2022-12-24 Five police officers injured in clashes in Paris
10th arrondissement: 2022-12-23 3 dead, 4 injured in Paris shooting UPDATE#2: Elderly Frenchman twice arrested for attacking foreigners arrested while Kurds riot
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