At this stage, a common law investigation into racially motivated murders and attempted murders is opened. Several voices, including that of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, ask to recognize that it is a terrorist act.
“There’s no hazard.” Present this Saturday at the rally in tribute to the Kurdish victims, Jean-Luc Mélenchon described the shootings that took place on Friday rue d’Enghien as an “attack” and demanded referral to the anti-terrorist prosecution.
The former presidential candidate also established a direct link between the shooting that took place on Friday in Paris and the triple assassination of Kurdish activists ten years earlier in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
“Yesterday (Friday, editor’s note) it was an assassin who deliberately sought to terrorize the Kurdish cultural center when a meeting was scheduled to discuss the upcoming January 9 rally to commemorate the 2013 assassination and to ask justice”, declared the figure of the party of La France Insoumise.
Among the victims: Emine Kara, a leader of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in France, specifies the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDK-F). Two men also died under the bullets of the main suspect – currently in police custody. They are Abdulrahman Kizil, “an ordinary Kurdish citizen”, and Mir Perwer, a Kurdish singer recognized as a political refugee and “prosecuted in Turkey for his art”, according to the CDK-F.
“It is a terrorist act and we ask that the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office be seized”, claimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“Inadmissible” not to retain the terrorist character
At this stage, a common law investigation into murders and attempted murders of a racist nature has been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office. The suspect would have acted alone and wanted to “take on foreigners”, said the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
The opportunity to seize the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office is under consideration in view of the disturbance and terror caused to public order and could intervene as the investigations progress.
The request to recognize the shooting as a terrorist act was also made by the Kurdish Democratic Council in France. “It is unacceptable that the terrorist character is not retained and that we are trying to make us believe that it is a simple far-right activist (…) who came to commit this horrible attack on our premises” , lamented Agit Polat, spokesperson for the CDK-F.
