12:04 p.m.: The Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F) called for a march on Monday at noon linking rue d’Enghien to rue La Fayette, where the bodies of the three PKK activists had been found.
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11:45 a.m.: The Paris prosecutor’s office requests the remand in custody of the suspect after his referral
10:52 a.m.: As soon as he was arrested, the suspect said he acted because he was “racist”, said a Source familiar with the matter. Placed in police custody on Friday shortly after the events, he was taken to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters on Saturday at the end of the day for health reasons.
His police custody was finally able to resume on Sunday at 4:25 p.m., the prosecution reported. The man must be presented on Monday to an examining magistrate with a view to a possible indictment for assassinations, attempted assassinations, intentional violence with weapons of a racist nature and violation of the legislation on weapons.
In another case, the alleged shooter was indicted, in particular for violence with a racist weapon, suspected of having stabbed migrants in a Paris camp on December 8, 2021. Placed in pre-trial detention for one year, the maximum period provided for by law for this type of offence, he was released on 12 December. The elements seized during the search of the parental home did not reveal “any link with an extremist ideology”, specified Ms. Beccuau. He is not known to the intelligence services either, nor listed as an ultra-right activist, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
Friday’s attack shocked the Kurdish community, which denounced a “terrorist” act and blamed Turkey. Demonstrations in tribute to the victims, sometimes interspersed with violence and degradation, were organized on Saturday in Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux. For many Kurds, this triple assassination echoes that, never elucidated, of three militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on January 9, 2013 in Paris. The Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F) called for a march on Monday at noon linking rue d’Enghien to rue La Fayette, where the bodies of the three PKK activists had been found.
9:30 am: Update on what we know this morning
The 69-year-old man suspected of having murdered three Kurds and injured three others on Friday in Paris, who admitted in police custody that he wanted to kill foreigners, must be presented to an investigating judge on Monday for a possible indictment. The racist motive of the facts is confirmed: this retired train driver of French nationality told investigators that he felt a “hatred of foreigners that had become completely pathological” since the burglary of his home in 2016, reported Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau.
He described himself as “depressive” and “suicidal” and, according to Ms Beccuau, added: “but before committing suicide, I always wanted to murder migrants, foreigners” since this burglary. Early Friday morning, he went armed to Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) “to commit murders on foreign people”, continued the prosecutor. But, for lack of people and unable to easily reload his weapon “because of his clothing”, he gave up his project.
After returning to his parents’ Parisian home, where he lived, he walked to rue d’Enghien (10th arrondissement) towards the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya, whose location he knew. The 60-year-old then opened fire with a handgun, killing two men, Mir Perwer, a Kurdish political refugee singer, and Abdurrahman Kizil, as well as the head of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in France, Emine Kara.
Three other men were injured. Five of the six victims are of Turkish nationality, the last of French nationality. The man explained “having attacked victims he did not know”, specifying that he was angry “with all the migrants” and “with the Kurds for having taken prisoners during their fight against Daesh (the Islamic State organization, editor’s note) instead of killing them +”, detailed Ms. Beccuau.
His intention was “to use all the ammunition and kill himself with the last bullet”, according to the prosecutor. His weapon, a Colt 45, four magazines containing a total of 14 ammunition and a box of 25 ammunition were found during his arrest.
6:45 am: The Kurdish Democratic Council in France calls for a new march this afternoon in tribute to the victims killed on Friday rue d’Enghien, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The meeting is given at the scene of the tragedy, at noon. The procession will then set off towards 147, rue Lafayette, where three Kurdish activists were murdered on the night of January 9 to 10, 2013. A demonstration took place this Saturday on the Place de la République, where thousands of people, members of the Kurdish community and supporters came to honor the memory of the victims and denounce the tragedy. Clashes had also broken out on the sidelines of the rally, on the Boulevard du Temple.
6:11 a.m .: The custody of William M., suspected of having killed three Kurds on Friday in Paris, was able to resume this Sunday at 4:25 p.m. He will be presented today to an examining magistrate for an indictment, said in a press release the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The alleged shooter explained in police custody that he went armed early in the morning to Saint-Denis before giving up his disastrous project for lack of people on the spot. He then took the direction of Enghien where he took action. The shooting left three dead and three injured on Friday at a Kurdish cultural center in the capital.
William M. said he was angry with “all the migrants” and explained, according to the public prosecutor Laure Beccuau, having attacked victims he did not know, specifying that he was angry with the Kurds for having “constituted prisoners during their fight against Daesh instead of killing them”.
The prosecution adds that the suspect claims not to have fixed the number of victims in advance but to have intended to use all the ammunition he had in his possession and to commit suicide with the last bullet.
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