Rioting broke out in Paris close to the scene of a racially-motivated mass shooting in which three people were killed and three others wounded.
said the country’s Kurdish community had been the victims of a heinous attack, with his interior minister Gerald Darmanin saying the suspect was clearly targeting foreigners., creating panic on a street lined with small shops and cafes in the French capital’s busy 10th district.
A 69-year-old man, named as William M, was arrested. Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said he had recently been freed from detention while awaiting trial for a sabre attack on a migrant camp in Paris a year ago.An investigating source said the assailant arrived in the area ‘armed with a gun and deliberately targeted an area full of immigrants, including recent arrivals sleeping rough’.
Protestors were mainly of the Kurdish Community voicing their concerns of feeling unprotected in France after the attack Eyewitness Mehmet Dilek said he first heard gunshots and then cries from inside a barber’s shop opposite the cultural centre. Bystanders subdued the gunman as he reloaded, he added.
The shootings were a ‘terrible drama’, district mayor Alexandra Cordebard told reporters. One of those wounded had suffered life-threatening injuries, she said.French police and firefighters secure a street
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