Three people were killed and three others seriously injured in a gun attack in central Paris on Friday. The attack happened at a Kurdish center. A 69-year-old man, according to media reports a former train driver, was arrested and is said to be known to the authorities. He is said to have violently attacked migrants before. The French public prosecutor announced that a racist motive would be examined.
The newspaper “Le Parisien” wrote that the Frenchman injured several people in a migrant camp with a saber last year. The man only got out of prison in mid-December and was under judicial supervision. But according to the Paris police, the man was not on the secret service’s list of acute danger. The police initially gave no information about the incident. On Twitter, she called for people to avoid the area.
The people were shocked: “There were seven or eight shots, there was panic,” eyewitnesses reported. According to the mayor of the tenth arrondissement of Paris, Alexandra Cordebard, the attacker also fired at a restaurant and a hairdressing salon opposite the Kurdish center near the Gare de l’Est train station.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo commemorated the victims and their families. A psychological support service has been set up at the tenth arrondissement town hall. Deputy Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire thanked the security forces for their quick action. His thoughts are with the victims and witnesses of the attack.
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