The prosecutor of the French capital reported this Sunday (25) that the 69-year-old man accused of killing three Kurds on Friday (23rd) in Paris (23), first went to a suburban area in the north of the capital to “commit murder” against foreigners.
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement that the suspect “had gone to Saint-Denis in the morning with his gun and ammunition to commit murder against foreigners.”
Saint-Denis is a town north of Paris with a large immigrant population.
The prosecutor “withdrew (…) because there were very few people and the clothes he was wearing made it impossible to easily load his gun”, the prosecutor added.
The man admitted that he felt “an xenophobia that became completely pathological” during his detention.
It is added that the suspect, who was transferred to the police psychiatric ward on Saturday, describes himself as a “depressive” with “suicidal tendencies”.
He also stated that he had a “constant” desire to “kill immigrants and foreigners” because he was the victim of a robbery at his home in 2016.
The man, a retired train conductor, opened fire several times in front of a Kurdish cultural center in central Paris. Several people managed to immobilize him before the police arrived.
According to a source close to the case, the shooter was arrested with “a briefcase full of two or three clips and a box of .45-caliber cartridges containing at least 25 rounds”.
In the attack, 3 people, 2 men and 1 woman, were killed and 3 people were injured, 1 seriously.
source: Noticias
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