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Clashes broke out for a second day in Paris on Saturday between police and members of the Kurdish community angry at the killing on Friday of three members of their community.
\nCars were overturned, at least one vehicle was burned and small fires set alight near Republic Square, the traditional venue for demonstrations in the city where Kurds earlier held a peaceful protest.
\nClashes broke out as some demonstrators left the square, throwing projectiles at police who responded with tear gas. Skirmishes continued for around two hours before the protesters dispersed.
\nA gunman carried out the killings at a Kurdish cultural center and nearby cafe on Friday in a busy part of Paris\u2019 10th district, stunning a community preparing to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the unresolved murder of three activists.
\nThe suspected attacker was wounded and is in custody. He is a 69-year-old Parisian who was charged last year with attacking migrants and was released earlier this month. He is facing potential charges of murder and attempted murder with a racist motive, the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said Saturday.
\nInterior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the suspect was clearly targeting foreigners, and had acted alone and was not officially affiliated with any extreme-right or other radical movements. The suspect had past convictions for illegal arms possession and armed violence.
\nFollowing questioning of the suspect, investigators had added a suspected racist motive to initial accusations of murder and violence with weapons, the prosecutor\u2019s office said on Saturday.
\nAfter an angry crowd clashed with police on Friday afternoon, the Kurdish democratic council in France (CDK-F) organized a gathering on Saturday at Republic Square.
\nHundreds of Kurdish protesters, joined by politicians including the mayor of Paris\u2019 10th district, waved flags and listened to tributes to the victims.
\n\u201cWe are not being protected at all. In 10 years, six Kurdish activists have been killed in the heart of Paris in broad daylight,\u201d Berivan Firat, a spokesperson for the CDK-F, told BFM TV at the demonstration.
\nShe said the event turned violent after some protesters were provoked by people in a passing vehicle who displayed a Turkish flag and made a nationalistic gesture.
\nFriday\u2019s murders came ahead of the anniversary of the killings of three Kurdish women in Paris in January 2013.
\nAn investigation was dropped after the main suspect died shortly before coming to trial, before being re-opened in 2019.
\nFrance\u2019s Interior Ministry reported a 13 percent rise in race-related crimes or other violations in 2021 over 2019, after an 11 percent rise from 2018 to 2019. The ministry did not include 2020 in its statistics because of successive pandemic lockdowns that year. It said a disproportionate number of such crimes target people of African descent, and also cited hundreds of attacks based on religion.
\n\u201cThe Kurdish community is afraid. It was already traumatized by the triple murder (in 2013). It needs answers, support and consideration,\u201d David Andic, a lawyer representing the CDK-F, told reporters on Friday.
\nKurdish representatives, who met with Paris\u2019 police chief on Saturday, reiterated their call for Friday\u2019s shooting to be considered a terror attack.
\nThe questioning of the suspect was continuing, the prosecutor\u2019s office added.<\/p>\n
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