The political situation in Turkey with regard to the Kurdish movement is clearly causing his association to “assume that these are political murders,” said Polat at the press conference held just 100 meters from the scene of the bloody deed.
A few hours earlier, a Frenchman who had previously been accused of racist violence shot dead three people and injured three others near a Kurdish cultural center in Paris. According to the CDK-F, the dead are Kurdish activists, including a young woman and a musician.
The suspect was taken into police custody at the scene and taken to hospital with minor injuries. According to information from the public prosecutor’s office, it is a 69-year-old Frenchman, a former train driver.
The perpetrator “obviously wanted to attack foreigners,” said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin at the scene. However, he emphasized that the exact motive of the man, whom he described as a lone perpetrator, is not known. CDK-F officials then called on the French authorities to end their “forbearance” towards the Turkish authorities regarding the safety of Kurds.
The former left-wing populist presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon also spoke at the CDK-F press conference on the multiple murder. He doesn’t believe in coincidence “when it comes to the murder of Kurds in Paris,” explained Mélenchon.
Almost ten years to the day before the act of violence, on January 9, 2013, three Kurdish activists of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were murdered in the same district of Paris. According to the investigations by the French judiciary, which are still ongoing, members of the Turkish secret service were involved in the crime, but there is no information on the suspected clients.
Kurdish organizations recently called for an investigation into the triple murder of 2013, and a large demonstration by Kurdish groups in Paris is planned for January 7th. According to information from the Berlin-based Kurdish Center for Public Relations, a preparatory meeting for the demonstration was taking place in the Paris Kurdish center at the time of the crime.
