“It is a racist attack,” the Parisian deputy EELV denounced this Saturday, the day after the attack that left three dead and three injured among the Kurdish community and that led to the opening of an investigation for murders, attempted murders, violence with a weapon, and violations of gun law.
The suspect, a 69-year-old man of French nationality, claimed a racist act during his arrest. In this context, Julien Bayou regrets that in France, “a part of the population” does not consider itself “as well protected as it should be”.
“There have been racist attacks, the extreme right acts with total impunity on social networks but also on the ground. We must remember that this is a racist attack, that the extreme right thrives on the trivialization of racist speech, ”explains the deputy on the BFMTV microphone.
“Lack of security”
Julien Bayou calls for the expression of “solidarity with the Kurdish community and, beyond that, with all foreigners in this country”. “You have to put a democratic brake on it. Violent groups must continue to be dissolved ”, he claims.
Several hundred people gathered this Saturday at the Place de la République in Paris to pay tribute to the Kurdish victims of the attack on Rue d’Enghien. In the crowd, many demonstrators wave flags of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) or the effigy of three Kurdish activists murdered in January 2013 in Paris. Others denounce an “injustice” and a “terrorist” and “political” act.
Received this Saturday morning by the police prefect, Laurent Núñez, representatives of the Kurdish community lamented a “lack of security” at the scene of the shooting, whose security is “under the responsibility of the French authorities”.
Source: BFM TV
