The facts occurred in a hairdressing salon in Roubaix (North), Sunday, December 25. Two days after the fatal attack in front of a Kurdish center in Paris. The alleged assailant was charged with attempted homicide.
The attack took place around 3 p.m., Sunday, December 25, 2022, in a hairdressing salon on rue de la Vigne in Roubaix.
While he was having his hair done, a 47-year-old Roubaisien of Turkish origin apparently did not appreciate that the hairdresser, a young man of 27, was playing Kurdish music. An altercation breaks out, first inside and then outside the living room.
The assailant seized a pair of scissors and stabbed the hairdresser, of Kurdish origin, several times in the chest. Transported in absolute urgency to the University Hospital of Lille, the 27-year-old young man was operated on and his life is no longer in danger. The victim’s ITT was set at 3 weeks.
A dispute took place Sunday, December 25 afternoon in Roubaix in a hairdressing salon between a client and a hairdresser, victim of a chest wound, whose vital prognosis is no longer engaged.
Carole Etienne, public prosecutor of Lille, to AFP
Slightly injured, the 47-year-old man was indicted for “attempted homicide” and imprisoned on Tuesday, announced the prosecution. He is, according to a source close to the investigation, already known to the police.
“The prosecution has opened a judicial investigation on the count of attempted murder with the aggravating circumstance relating to the racist nature of the facts even if this last point is disputed by the person concerned.“, prosecutor Carole Etienne told AFP.
This violent attack comes two days after the deadly shooting perpetrated in the heart of Paris by a 69-year-old man in front of the Kurdish cultural center in the 10th arrondissement. The pensioner killed three people.
Placed in police custody, he claimed the racist nature of his act, explaining that he had developed a “hatred of foreigners has become completely pathological”. He was charged and remanded in custody. For the moment, the prosecution has rejected the terrorist nature of this attack.
However, the two events should not be compared. According to La Voix du Nord, the aggressor had not gone there specifically to violently attack the Kurdish hairdresser. He was used to the establishment and had no weapon on him, adds the newspaper.
In a message posted on social networks, the LFI deputy for the Roubaix Wattrelos constituency expressed his solidarity with the Kurdish people. “Faced with attacks, the protection of Kurds in France must be a top priority”he added.
The investigation, entrusted to the Lille judicial police, is continuing. She will have to “determine very exactly the circumstances of the facts”, said Carole Etienne, public prosecutor of Lille, to our colleagues at AFP.
The investigation is in progress in order to determine very exactly the circumstances of the facts.
Carole Etienne, public prosecutor of Lille, to AFP
This Tuesday, December 27, a white march in tribute to the victims of the rue d’Enghien was organized in Lille.
The members of the Franco-Kurdish cultural house of Nord Pas-de-Calais, at the initiative of this mobilization, also wanted to pay tribute to the 27-year-old hairdresser attacked in his salon in Roubaix.