The alleged shooter in the rue d’Enghien, William M., was indicted on Monday, December 26 following his hearing by an investigating judge. The 69-year-old man suspected of having murdered three Kurds and injured three other people on Friday in Paris, admitted in police custody that he wanted to kill foreigners. He also admitted to having a “pathological hatred of foreigners”.
What we know about the suspect of the shooting rue d’Enghien in Paris, already known for attempted murders
The suspect, a retired train driver of French nationality, was indicted by an investigating judge for murder and attempted murder on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nation or religion, as well as for acquisition and unauthorized possession of weapons, said a judicial source.
He went Friday, December 23 on foot rue d’Enghien (10th arrondissement of Paris) towards the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya and opened fire with a handgun, killing two men, Mir Perwer, a Kurdish refugee singer politics, and Abdurrahman Kizil, as well as the leader of the Kurdish Women’s Movement in France, Emine Kara. Three other men were injured. Five of the six victims are of Turkish nationality, the last of French nationality.
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