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12:27 : Investigations now focus on acts of assassination, attempted assassination, violence with a weapon and violations of the legislation on weapons of a racist nature. “The addition of this circumstance does not modify the maximum penalty incurred, which remains life imprisonment”says the prosecution.
12:26 p.m. : The police custody of the suspect of the fatal attack yesterday in the 10th arrondissement is extended and the racist motive is retained by the investigation, announces the Paris prosecutor’s office.
12:13 p.m. : Here is the main news at midday:
• The 69-year-old man suspected of killing three Kurds and injuring three others yesterday in the 10th arrondissement in Paris said during his arrest that he acted because he was “racist” and that he was targeting the Kurdish community, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced an act of “terror” Russian for “intimidate” the Ukrainians, after a strike on the city center of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, which left at least five dead and 20 injured. Follow our live.
• TGV cuts increase today, on the second day of a strike by SNCF controllers, despite an agreement validated yesterday between the group’s management and the unions. We explain to you what prompted a collective of controllers to launch this social movement.
• Two children died early this morning in the fire of a house in Selles (Eure) where they were with their family to spend the end of year celebrations.
12:11 p.m. : Hello @Sadworld thank you and happy holidays to you too! To answer your question, yes Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally group in the National Assembly, reacted. She thanked law enforcement for “their rapid and decisive intervention”. MP RN sends her “thoughts” to the “families of relatives hit by this terrible tragedy”.
You will find his reaction, like those of the entire political class, in our dedicated article.
12:00 p.m. : The RN did not react?
12:01 : Hello Franceinfo,
Did the RN react to this racist attack?
Thank you and happy holidays to all beyond nationalities, beliefs or cultures.
12:00 p.m. : Deadly attack in Paris: the suspect declared in police custody that he wanted to attack the Kurdish community, according to a source familiar with the matter contacted by franceinfo, confirming information from BFMTV.
11:12 a.m. : “Make no mistake. There is no judicial control where you are followed on a daily basis by a police officer or by a judicial controller.”
For Ludovic Friat, president of the USM, the main union of French magistrates, “ohn always comes back to the usual problem, that of the means”, of Justice.
11:09 : Why was the suspect, already indicted for violence with a weapon, not tried before his release? Why was his judicial control not stricter? He had been indicted for “racist violence” and for these facts “pretrial detention is a maximum of one year”recalls Ludovic Friat, president of the Union of Magistrates (USM) on franceinfo.
11:25 a.m. : Hello We have to wait for the rest of the investigation to find out if he was able to obtain weapons on his release from prison, and how. Or if these weapons belonged to him and if he had declared them, because he was a shooter in a sports club and had declared many weapons, detailed yesterday the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
11:05 a.m. : #KURDS. Hello ? I renew my question from yesterday WITHOUT ANSWER: The killer was recently (?) in prison. Nevertheless, he was able to arm himself without apparent difficulty ?
11:24 : Regarding the suspect’s weapon finally found, according to information from franceinfo, from the same source, it is secured by the police in a “briefcase”, with inside “two or three loaded magazines, a box of 45 mm caliber cartridges, with at least 25 cartridges inside. The weapon is a 1911 US army Colt 45 mm (…) worn in appearance, black in color “.
10:58 : “I ask him the reason for his actions, and he tells me that he is racist”, recounts the police officer who arrested the main suspect of the fatal attack in the 10th arrondissement of Paris in the report that David Di Giacomo, journalist at franceinfo, was able to consult. The police identified the suspect, “William M.”thanks to a “SNCF card”.
10:55 : The suspect claims to have acted because he is “racist”according to a source familiar with the matter.
10:53 : Hello @Alex. Not at all, Emmanuel Macron spoke of a “odious attack in the heart of Paris”on Twitter. The President of the Republic also addressed his “thoughts of the victims, of the people struggling to survive, of their families and loved ones.”
10:53 : Hello FI. I bounce on your last answer because even the president of the republic spoke about attack it seems to me?
10:49 : “We tried to alert the authorities and to inform that we had very serious concerns about our safety, in connection with the very tense climate currently in Turkey and with the Kurdish movement, and on the other hand with the approach of the 10ᵉ anniversary of the triple murder files.“
The spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council of France explains that he asked “ten days ago” protective measures to the French authorities.
11:07 : The fact that the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office did not take up the investigation “is frustrating and indignant for us”, reacted on franceinfo Agit Polat, the spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council of France. See him in this attack “a terrorist attack”, but remember, this is not the qualifier used by the courts at this stage.
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11:07 : Hello @expat @Azenora.Bzh. It is not because the victims are not French that we are not talking about an attack. This is because the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office did not take up the case. He did not see fit to do so at this hour. One of the criteria for doing so is the terrorist intention, with regard to the past, the course and a claim to an ideology of the perpetrator.
11:06 : Hello, shouldn’t we talk about a terrorist attack about yesterday’s attack? Because in the end political extremism or religious extremism, the idea is the same, it is a question of terrorizing part of the population. For a moment let’s not be afraid of words, yesterday’s attack in Paris is a terrorist attack against the Kurdish community.
11:06 : Why don’t you talk about an attack? Because the victims are not French?
10:36 : Hundreds of members of the Kurdish community are still gathered rue d’Enghien in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, according to journalists from BFMTV and RTL on the spot. They chant the names of the victims of the shooting. They also announced a demonstration at midday Place de la République in Paris.
10:32 : ? The fear & courage of the customers of this hair salon, targeted by the shooter on rue d’Enghien this morning. After being shot, they manage to subdue him➡️ The summary of the facts for @infofrance3 with @NathaliePerezTV @Alexandra_layy @CamilleRigeade https://t.co/5QWsmZwPl1
10:38 : When the man fired yesterday at customers of a hairdressing salon in the rue d’Enghien, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, they showed composure and managed to control him. France 3 was able to obtain video surveillance images from the hairdressing salon and also from a local resident, who filmed the arrest of the suspect.
10:37 : The prefect of police of Paris, Laurent Nuñez, is currently receiving representatives of the Kurdish community, “at the request of the President of the Republic and the Minister of the Interior”. “We are bereaved and angry” declared this morning on franceinfo Agit Polat, spokesperson for the Kurdish community, who will be one of the interlocutors present.
10:23 : Let’s take a look around the newsstands. The deadly attack in Paris yesterday is obviously on the front page of many daily newspapers, such as The Parisian Where The voice of the North… which also reminds us that it’s Christmas and therefore has collected the testimonies of its readers on the most beautiful moments at this time.
09:51 : One of the murdered Kurds in #Paris is Emine Kara, nom de guerre Evin Goyi, one leading figure of the Kurdish women’s liberation movement. One of those who created the notion of #JinJiyanAzadi with their struggle for freedom under the most difficult circumstances. #IAmKurdish https://t.co/kbeIefjIIb
10:21 a.m. : Hello @pierreyannick. Of course we think of the victims of the massacre yesterday afternoon. But if we have communicated little about them, it is because the information on their identity did not arrive quickly, unlike those on the shooter.
Nevertheless, this morning, on BFMTV, Berivan Firat, spokesperson for the Kurdish association CDKF, painted a portrait of the three victims. One of them is Emine Kara, an activist of the Kurdish women’s movement, who came to France because she was injured after fighting against the Islamic State group in Syria. There was also a young singer and a man “who dedicated his life to the Kurdish struggle”. One of my colleagues is preparing an article summarizing what we know about the victims.
10:20 a.m. : Hello. The most important since yesterday remains the perpetrator of the crimes and not the victims of whom we still know nothing!??
09:10 : Here is the main news this morning:
• After three people were killed and three others injured in an attack in Paris, near a Kurdish cultural centre, investigators are continuing their investigations on Saturday to determine the reasons which led a 69-year-old man, already prosecuted for a racist aggression, to open fire yesterday in Paris.
• The TGV cuts are increasing today, on the second day of a strike by SNCF controllers, despite an agreement validated yesterday between the group’s management and the unions. We explain to you what prompted a collective of controllers to launch this social movement.
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