Macron condemned – Three dead from the attack
The Kurdish Democratic Council of France (CDK-F) considers it “unacceptable” that the shooting incident that claimed the lives of three people this afternoon outside a Kurdish community center in Paris has not been classified as a “terrorist attack”.
“It is unacceptable that the designation of terrorism is not given and that they are trying to convince us that it was a simple far-right (…) who came to commit this horrible attack on our territory,” said Agit Polat, a CDK-F spokesman. at a press conference he gave at a restaurant, about 100 meters from the scene of the attack.
“The political situation in Turkey regarding the Kurdish movement makes us think that these are political murders,” Polat underlined, adding that, according to the Kurds of France, behind the attack are “the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish state”.
French Interior Minister Géral Darmanin said earlier that the alleged attacker acted alone and wanted to “attack foreigners”.
The representatives of the CDK-F called on the French authorities “to stop the intransigence towards the Turkish authorities when it comes to the security of the Kurds”.
“The French authorities must accept us and stop this cynical game,” Polat said, clarifying that he had “expressed his fears” about the safety of the Kurds to French intelligence services “just 20 days ago.”
“The Franco-Kurdish community today is angry and afraid,” said David Antik, CDK-F’s legal adviser.
Also present at the interview was Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a leader of France’s radical left, who said he “doesn’t believe in randomness when it comes to killing Kurds in Paris” some 10 years after the triple murder of Kurdish activists in the French 10th arrondissement capital city. The CDK-F assures that the Turkish secret services are behind that case.
Regarding the victims of today’s attack, the CDK-F said that one was a Kurdish artist, a recognized political refugee, who is “being persecuted in Turkey for his art.” The second man was “an ordinary Kurdish citizen” who frequented the community center every day.
The woman who was killed had submitted a request to be granted political asylum, but this was rejected by the French authorities.
The Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France (CCAF) in a statement expressed its condolences to the Kurdish Cultural Center and CDK-F “with which we maintain a long friendship, forged in our mobilizations against pan-Turkism and Turkish fascism.”
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