France: Suspect charged for killing three Kurds in Paris
1 year, 11 months ago

France: Suspect charged for killing three Kurds in Paris

Hindustan Times  

France charged a suspected gunman on Monday with last week's killing of three Kurds in Paris, as hundreds of people marched in the French capital to pay tribute to the victims. Watch| Paris on boil; Stone-pelting, arson as Kurds clash with police over gun attack The shooting at a Kurdish cultural centre and a nearby hairdressing salon on Friday sparked panic in the city's bustling 10th district, home to numerous shops and restaurants and a large Kurdish population. Read| Paris shooting suspect's custody lifted for health reasons: Prosecutor Last year, he was charged with racist violence after allegedly stabbing migrants and slashing their tents with a sword in a park in eastern Paris. The Paris prosecutor said the suspect, described as "depressive" and "suicidal", admitted to investigators a long-held desire to kill migrants and foreigners since a burglary at his home in 2016.

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One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting
7 months, 2 weeks ago

One dead, several injured in Paris suburb shooting

The Hindu  

One person was killed and six injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting likely linked to drug trafficking, prosecutors and the mayor said Saturday. The attack in a parking lot near a cultural centre at Sevran, which lies between central Paris and the city's main airport Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 pm Friday, prosecutors …

French police hunt an assailant who attacked a man leaving a Paris synagogue
9 months, 3 weeks ago

French police hunt an assailant who attacked a man leaving a Paris synagogue

Associated Press  

PARIS — French authorities were searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. Darmanin said late Saturday that the alleged attack on Friday evening targeting a man in his early 60s was “a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris.” “Everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrator of this …

Police in Paris have arrested a man who targeted passersby, killing 1 and injuring 2, official says
1 year ago

Police in Paris have arrested a man who targeted passersby, killing 1 and injuring 2, official says

Associated Press  

PARIS — French police arrested a man who targeted passersby in Paris on Saturday night, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others, France’s interior minister said. After his arrest, he expressed anguish about Muslims dying, notably in Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories, and claimed that France was an accomplice, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. The …

Man dies in Marseille after being shot at time of riots: French prosecutor
1 year, 5 months ago

Man dies in Marseille after being shot at time of riots: French prosecutor

India Today  

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a 27-year old man who was hit by a projectile at the time of the riots on Saturday, the Marseille prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. There was rioting across France following the funeral of a teenager of North African descent, whose shooting by police during a traffic stop sparked nationwide …

Paris riots: Fears of no end to violence across France after police killing of teen – ‘It’s getting worse and worse’
1 year, 5 months ago

Paris riots: Fears of no end to violence across France after police killing of teen – ‘It’s getting worse and worse’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. while his government is considering "all options" to restore …

Explained: How the killing of a teenager puts spotlight on police violence in France
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained: How the killing of a teenager puts spotlight on police violence in France

Firstpost  

Following the tragic killing of a 17-year-old near Paris earlier this week, France has found itself at the centre of a global debate over police violence. Also Read: France unrest: Policeman who killed teen says sorry as violence intensifies More generally, the number of people killed by police officers after they refused to comply with an order is on the …

Youths clash with French police and loot in 4th night of riots triggered by fatal police shooting
1 year, 5 months ago

Youths clash with French police and loot in 4th night of riots triggered by fatal police shooting

Associated Press  

NANTERRE, France — Young rioters clashed with police and looted stores overnight Friday in a fourth night of unrest in France triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teen, piling more pressure on President Emmanuel Macron after he appealed to parents to keep children off the streets and blamed social media for fueling violence. Looters during the evening broke …

French suburbs are burning. How a teen’s killing is focusing anger over police tactics
1 year, 5 months ago

French suburbs are burning. How a teen’s killing is focusing anger over police tactics

Associated Press  

The fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old outside Paris this week has set off widespread disorder in French suburbs, with protesters burning cars, garbage and buildings. Since it took effect, they have been authorized to fire on a vehicle “whose occupants are likely to perpetrate, in their flight, attacks on their life or physical integrity or that of others.” The …

France police shooting prompts unrest: All you need to know
1 year, 5 months ago

France police shooting prompts unrest: All you need to know

Al Jazeera  

Clashes erupt in several French cities after the police killing of a teenager, prompting the mobilisation of 40,000 officers. More than 40,000 police officers have been mobilised across France as the government tries to contain growing anger after a police officer killed a teenager. Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler, reporting from Nanterre, said that protesters, mainly young men, have thrown fireworks …

Tensions erupt in a Paris suburb after a 17-year-old delivery driver is killed in a police standoff
1 year, 5 months ago

Tensions erupt in a Paris suburb after a 17-year-old delivery driver is killed in a police standoff

Associated Press  

PARIS — A 17-year-old delivery driver was shot and killed by a police officer Tuesday in a Paris suburb, according to his family’s lawyers. The police officer was detained on suspicion of manslaughter, according to the prosecutor’s office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. The lawyers cited a video reported to be of the incident circulating online that shows two …

France knife attack suspect charged with attempted murder
1 year, 6 months ago

France knife attack suspect charged with attempted murder

Hindustan Times  

French judges on Saturday handed preliminary charges of attempted murder to a man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a French Alps park, an attack that reverberated across France and beyond. The suspect, a 31-year-old Syrian refugee with permanent Swedish residency, has a 3-year-old daughter living in Sweden, regional prosecutor Line Bonnet-Mathis said. The suspected attacker, …

France: At Least 3 Killed, 8 Injured During Drug Gang Violence in Marseille
1 year, 8 months ago

France: At Least 3 Killed, 8 Injured During Drug Gang Violence in Marseille

News 18  

At least three people were shot dead and another eight were wounded during an overnight flare up in drug gang violence in the crime-plagued French port of Marseille, police said Monday. Two young men in their early 20s suffered fatal gunshot wounds overnight, two of them in the Castellas neighbourhood in northern Marseille where around 50 bullet casings were found …

Kurds from around Europe demonstrate over killings in Paris
1 year, 11 months ago

Kurds from around Europe demonstrate over killings in Paris

The Hindu  

Kurdish groups from around France and Europe are marching in Paris on Saturday to show their anger over the unresolved killing of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital 10 years ago. The marchers are also mourning three people killed outside a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris two weeks ago in what prosecutors called a racist attack. Escorted by …

Thousands march in Paris to protest unresolved killings of Kurds
1 year, 11 months ago

Thousands march in Paris to protest unresolved killings of Kurds

Al Jazeera  

Thousands gather in the French capital to demand justice for three Kurdish activists who were killed in the city 10 years ago. Thousands of demonstrators have marched in Paris to express their frustration about the unresolved murders of three Kurdish female activists 10 years ago. The marchers were also mourning the three people killed outside a Kurdish cultural centre in …

Cars set on fire, cops injured as violent protests erupt in Paris days after attack on Kurds
1 year, 11 months ago

Cars set on fire, cops injured as violent protests erupt in Paris days after attack on Kurds

India Today  

Protests erupted in Paris after a racially motivated attack on the city's Kurdish community killed three people and injured several others on Friday, December 23. At least one vehicle was burned, shop windows were damaged and small fires set alight near Republic Square, a traditional venue for demonstrations, as protests turned violent. pic.twitter.com/77AO93NeIW — LOUIS December 24, 2022 Paris police …

France places Paris shooting suspect under formal probe
1 year, 11 months ago

France places Paris shooting suspect under formal probe

Al Jazeera  

The 69-year-old suspected of shooting dead three Kurdish people in Paris appears before an investigating judge. The man suspected of shooting dead three Kurdish people in Paris last week has been placed under formal investigation, according to the city prosecutor’s office. The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after two men and a woman were shot dead at a Kurdish …

Suspect in Paris shooting admits to 'pathological' hatred of foreigners
1 year, 11 months ago

Suspect in Paris shooting admits to 'pathological' hatred of foreigners

Hindustan Times  

A French man suspected of killing three Kurds in Paris has confessed to a "pathological" hatred for foreigners, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said on Sunday. The shooting at a Kurdish cultural centre and a nearby hairdressing salon on Friday sparked panic in the city's bustling 10th district, home to several shops and restaurants and a large Kurdish population. The suspect …

Kurds, anti-racism groups gather after deadly Paris shooting
2 years ago

Kurds, anti-racism groups gather after deadly Paris shooting

The Hindu  

Members of France's Kurdish community and anti-racism activists joined together in mourning and anger on Saturday in Paris after three people were killed at a Kurdish cultural center in an attack that prosecutors say was racially motivated. Thousands gathered Saturday at the Place de la Republique in eastern Paris, waving a colourful spectrum of flags representing Kurdish rights groups, left-wing …

Paris shooting suspect has a ‘pathological hatred of foreigners’
2 years ago

Paris shooting suspect has a ‘pathological hatred of foreigners’

Al Jazeera  

The 69-year-old man ‘always wanted to kill migrants or foreigners’, the Paris public prosecutor’s office says. The suspected attacker thought to have fatally shot three Kurds in Paris has admitted to a “hatred of foreigners that has become pathological”, French officials have said. Ever since a burglary at his home six years ago, the 69-year-old man had “always wanted to …

Video: Protests after deadly ‘racist’ shooting in Paris turn violent
2 years ago

Video: Protests after deadly ‘racist’ shooting in Paris turn violent

Hindustan Times  

Violence broke out in central Paris after Friday's deadly shooting on the city's Kurdish community. This comes after three people were killed in Friday's shooting, which took place at a Kurdish cultural centre and a restaurant. The suspect said that he was a racist who hated foreigners, AFP reported adding that the man launched his attack with a "much-used" pistol …

Paris shooter who killed three admits being ‘racist’
2 years ago

Paris shooter who killed three admits being ‘racist’

The Hindu  

A 69-year-old white French gunman who opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris killing three people told investigators he was racist, a source close to the case said on December 24, 2022. French President Emmanuel Macron said “the Kurds in France have been the target of an odious attack in the heart of Paris” and ordered the Paris …

Paris shooting: Protests erupt after gunman kills three at cultural centre
2 years ago

Paris shooting: Protests erupt after gunman kills three at cultural centre

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But interior minister Gerald Darmanin suggested the gunman’s intended …

Suspect in Paris shooting transferred to psychiatric unit
2 years ago

Suspect in Paris shooting transferred to psychiatric unit

Al Jazeera  

Authorities say the 69-year-old suspect, who allegedly killed three people, was removed from custody for health reasons. A French man suspected of killing three people in an attack at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris has been transferred to a psychiatric unit, according to prosecutors. The Paris prosecutor said a doctor examined the suspect’s health on Saturday afternoon and deemed …

Three dead and several injured after gunman opens fire in central Paris
2 years ago

Three dead and several injured after gunman opens fire in central Paris

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A gunman killed three people …

3 dead in Paris shooting, gunman was 'targeting foreigners': 10 points
2 years ago

3 dead in Paris shooting, gunman was 'targeting foreigners': 10 points

Hindustan Times  

Three people were killed and four injured in a shooting in central Paris, authorities said, adding that the shooter, in his 60s, had been arrested. French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said that he would travel to Paris and visit the scene of the shooting. Paris prosecutor's office said an investigation had been opened and that "a man aged between 60 …

3 dead after shooting in central Paris, gunman arrested
2 years ago

3 dead after shooting in central Paris, gunman arrested

India Today  

At least three people were killed, while four others were injured in a shooting incident in central Paris on Friday. According to the details, the firing incident happened in the vicinity of a Kurdish cultural centre, French television network BFM TV reported. pic.twitter.com/mbQFl2a0vf — Clément Lanot December 23, 2022 Meanwhile, Paris police said they were dealing with an incident on …

2015 Paris attacks suspect: Deaths of 130 ‘nothing personal’
3 years, 3 months ago

2015 Paris attacks suspect: Deaths of 130 ‘nothing personal’

Associated Press  

PARIS — The key defendant in the 2015 Paris attacks trial said Wednesday the coordinated killings were in retaliation for French airstrikes on the Islamic State group, calling the deaths of 130 innocent people “nothing personal” as he acknowledged his role for the first time. Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at …

Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks
3 years, 3 months ago

Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks

Associated Press  

PARIS — The trial of 20 men accused in a series of coordinated attacks on Paris in 2015 that spread fear across Europe and transformed France opened Wednesday in a custom-built complex embedded within a 13th-century courthouse. Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, …

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