The environment of the Place de la République, in Paris, have turn out to be this Saturday the scene of clashes between protesters and police.
During the demonstration, quite a few crimson flags of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been noticed, different dwellings in reminiscence of three Kurdish ladies assassinated in 2013 additionally in Paris, and different yellow flags with the face of the Kurdistan chief, Abdullah Ocalan, in keeping with the BFM TV chain.
Likewise, the headquarters of the City Council of the tenth district of Paris, the realm of the capital the place the taking pictures occurred, has eliminated the French flag from its facade and as a substitute has raised the Kurdish banner “in tribute to the victims.”
In truth, the mayoress of the tenth arrondissement, Alexandra Cordebard, has assured on her Twitter profile that the company is “along with the Kurds of France”, and they’re paying tribute this Saturday to the victims of the “racist assault perpetrated on rue Enghien” .
Although the march befell peacefully, minority teams have staged clashes on Boulevard du Temple, the place road furnishings and store home windows have been smashed, and riot police have fired tear fuel.
The safety service of the Kurdish Democratic Council has collaborated with the brokers to quell the incidents, forming a human chain.
Identified attacker
The French authorities has not linked this assault particularly to the existence of the cultural heart, however the CDK, on its Twitter account, described these killed as “Kurdish militants”, and a witness to the taking pictures assured the Kurdish-Iraqi company Rudaw that the three deceased have been “activists of the Kurdish trigger”.
At least two useless and 4 wounded by the pictures of a gunman in Paris
Until now, nonetheless, there isn’t a official info on the identities of the deceased.
The French Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, restricted himself to estimating that the assault was directed in opposition to the international inhabitants and at no time did he point out that Kurdish residents have been the targets of the taking pictures.
The suspect within the assault has been recognized as a 69-year-old man with a historical past of racist violence.