{"id":24229,"date":"2022-12-23T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=24229"},"modified":"2022-12-23T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T21:38:26","slug":"paris-shooting-three-dead-and-several-injured-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/12\/23\/paris-shooting-three-dead-and-several-injured-in-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris shooting: Three dead and several injured in attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A gunman has opened fire in central Paris, killing three people and wounding three others.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The attacker targeted a Kurdish cultural centre and shot members of the local community. A possible racist motive is being investigated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A suspect, aged 69, was quickly arrested and it soon emerged he had been freed from prison recently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Clashes later broke out between police and a group who had gathered at the scene in the aftermath of the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Footage showed people starting fires in the middle of the street and smashing car windows, with officers clad in riot gear responding by throwing tear gas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The unrest came after a man, described by witnesses as tall, white and elderly, shot dead two men and a woman on Rue d’Enghien in the 10th district of Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Of the three people injured, one was said to be in a critical condition and the others were receiving treatment for serious injuries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There is no confirmed motive for the shooting, but Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said the suspect had previously been charged with racist violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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That incident – in which he attacked tents at a migrant camp in Paris with a sword – took place at Bercy on 8 December 2021. It was not clear why he had recently been released.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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French Interior Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin, who earlier travelled to the scene, said there was currently no known link between the suspect and “ultra-right” groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Local Mayor Alexandra Cordebard said the gunman was also wounded in the shooting and that three places had come under fire: the Kurdish community centre, a restaurant and a hairdresser. Two people were shot in the salon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We were walking in the street and heard gunshots,” a witness, Ali Dalek, told the BBC. “We turned around and saw people running left and right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“And then, five or six minutes later, because we know people who work at the hair salon, we went in and we saw that they had arrested a guy.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Another witness, a shopkeeper, told AFP she had locked herself in. She said she had heard seven or eight bursts of gunfire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Police eventually detained the suspect without resistance and reportedly recovered the weapon used in the attack. Prosecutors said they had opened a murder investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Authorities have sealed off Rue d’Enghien, which is home to several restaurants and shops, while officials attempt to uncover the truth behind what happened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDF-K), which runs the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre that was hit, condemned the attack in a\u00a0short statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Le Monde newspaper\u00a0quoted Agit Polat<\/a>, a spokesperson for the centre, as saying French authorities had “once more” failed to protect Kurds living in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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French President Emmanuel Macron praised police for their “courage” and said the capital’s Kurdish community had been the “target of a heinous attack”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It came almost 10 years after the\u00a0murder of three Kurdish women activists in Paris in January 2013<\/a>, including a co-founder of the militant nationalist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A Turkish man was charged with the killings but he died in 2016 before being tried.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The CDF-K referred to the historic case in its statement, saying the attack on Friday occurred “shortly before the 10th anniversary of the the triple assassination of Kurdish activists in Paris on 9 January 2013”. No official link between the two incidents has so far been identified.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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