Terrorist attack in Paris: the author of the shooting intended to commit suicide after the massacre [VIDEO]

Author shooting that this Friday cost the lives of three Kurds in the very center Paris He confessed to investigators that he had previously attempted a massacre in nearby Saint-Denis and that his intention was to commit suicide “after killing foreigners”.

According to a statement released this Sunday by the Paris prosecutor’s office, Laure BequoThe 69-year-old man claimed that on Friday morning he went to Saint-Denis, a city in the north Paris known to be inhabited by many immigrants with the intent to kill as many as possible.

Even though he had a weapon, a 11-43 colt 45 that he purchased five years ago and hid in his parents’ house where he lived, and numerous ammunition, he did not find too many people and abandoned his plan.

He returned to the area where he lives and remembered that he was there Kurdish cultural centera community he said he hated for capturing Islamic State (ISIS) soldiers and not killing them.

There he committed a massacre, shooting two men and a woman. The first two are in front of the cultural center and the third is at a nearby Kurdish restaurant where he recovered. Two died instantly, the third in the hospital.

According to prosecutors, the man entered a nearby barbershop, where he wounded three other people and was disarmed by one of them until he was arrested by law enforcement at 11:40 am.

During the interrogation, which was supposed to be detained this Saturday due to the detainee’s mental problems, he described himself as “depressed” and “suicidal”.

He claimed that his hatred of foreigners began when a robbery was committed at his house in 2016. According to various media, then he attacked one of the thieves of foreign origin and was convicted for this, after which he began to hate all foreigners.

The prosecutor pointed out that “the only thing she regrets is that she didn’t commit suicide” which she plans to do “someday” but “not before making as many enemies as possible”, referring to “all non-European foreigners”.

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The investigation has so far been unable to establish any specific relationship with the Kurdish community, and neither the analysis of his phone nor the analysis of the computer that he had in his parents’ house has failed to establish any element, in particular, specific links to the far right. . ideology.

The investigation so far excludes the terrorist nature of the action, according to representatives of the Kurdish community in Francewhich put Turkey behind the events that are taking place almost ten years after the cold-blooded murder of three Kurdish militants very close to where the shooting took place.

The distrust of the Kurds in the French authorities is at the heart of the riots that have taken place in the past two days between protesters and law enforcement agencies.

Last Friday they took place near the site of the massacre, after a visit by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, and the next day they took place in the nearby Place de la République after a demonstration convened in memory of the victim.

They damaged outdoor furniture, set fire to containers and several motorcycles, overturned several cars and smashed shop windows.

In total, eleven people were arrested, and 31 officers had to be treated for injuries, as was one of the protesters. (EFE)