The shooting took place at a Kurdish cultural centre and sparked skirmishes on a street lined with small shops and cafes in the French capital’s busy 10th district.
A man who was charged last year with attacking migrants shot and killed three people at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris in an assault that authorities said appeared to be specifically aimed at foreigners.
Skirmishes erupted in the neighbourhood a few hours later as members of the Kurdish community shouted slogans against the Turkish government, and police fired tear gas to disperse the increasingly agitated crowd. Some garbage bins were set on fire. A construction worker on a job nearby described seeing the assailant go first to the cultural centre, then to the restaurant and the hair salon. The worker said that he saw the assailant wound three people before two passersby in the salon intervened and stopped him.Credit:The worker, who spoke on the condition that his name not be published because he was concerned for his security, described the attacker as silent and calm as he wielded a small-calibre pistol.
He had been held in provisional detention in that case until Dec. 12, when he was released under judicial supervision, ordered to get psychiatric care and banned from carrying weapons.
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