In Plaza de la República, in the French capital, thousands of protesters gathered this afternoon for the attack that a 69-year-old man perpetrated yesterday in the same place, in which he murdered a woman and two men and injured three people. , one of gravity.
Before the arrival of the authorities, the man was detained by the people who were circulating in the place. When the police took his statement, the attacker – who already had a criminal record for acts of violence with weapons – cited as the main cause of his actions that “he is racist.”
That is why this afternoon the demonstrators went peacefully to the place of the attack, demanding justice for what happened. But the calm did not last long, and the mobilization ended with garbage cans and burning vehicles, along with a confrontation with the police, who responded by firing tear gas.
Based on the statements given to French television, it was revealed that a group of people crossed the demonstration with the Turkish flag and gesturing with the sign of the “grey wolves”, a Turkish xenophobic organization.
In addition, according to Télam, the man accused of perpetrating the attack, at the time of his arrest, had a briefcase with three full magazines and 25 45-caliber cartridges, with which he was seeking to carry out a massacre.
