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[RIA Novosti]
Five police officers were injured during clashes with Kurds after shooting in Paris, BFMTV reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. "Representatives of the Kurds began to throw incendiary mixtures in the direction of law enforcement forces. Five policemen were injured, one detention took place," the report says.Representatives of the Kurdish community earlier organized a spontaneous rally near the site of the emergency and began chanting anti-Turkish slogans, accusing Ankara of being involved in the incident. Later, the action escalated into clashes with the police, who used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators. Nevertheless, the clashes intensified.
"organized a spontaneous rally" sounds a bit...contradictory
As a RIA Novosti correspondent reported, the protesters began to riot, burn garbage cans, throw stones and bottles at the police. In response, the security forces repeatedly used tear gas, and then stun grenades.
On Friday, a 69-year-old man opened fire on a street in the 10th arrondissement of Paris . He was detained, the motives of the crime are still unknown. According to Agence France-Presse, the attacker is French by nationality, he is known to the police for two assassination attempts committed in 2016 and 2021.
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According to the latest data, three people died during the shooting - two men and one woman - belonged to the Kurdish community, two of the victims are in serious condition, two more are in a moderate condition. The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into the case of intentional murder.
It is reported that in 2021, the man who opened fire was already detained for attacking a migrant center in the 12th arrondissement of the French capital, where he wounded two people. He was released pending trial 11 days before today's attack. According to BFMTV, the shooter belongs to a sports shooting club and was banned from carrying weapons for five years.
The police are now conducting searches at the home of the attacker.
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The Kurdish man also said that the suspect was first arrested by Kurdish men then handed over to the police.
Regarding the victims, Aydogan said they are all "
All the victims are originally from Kurdish areas of
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...(Northern Kurdistan), according to the eyewitness.