• Friday’s attack on Paris’ Kurd community sparked violence in the city’s center.
• 69-year-old white man suspect that he was a bigot.
• Police deployed tear gas after demonstrators burned automobiles.

As a result of Friday’s horrific attack on the city’s Kurdish community, violence has erupted in central Paris.

In addition to throwing objects at police, protesters tipped over automobiles and lit some on fire. Tear gas was used in response by the police.

The attack on Friday, which happened at a restaurant and a center for Kurdish culture, claimed the lives of three individuals.

According to a police source who spoke to Media, the 69-year-old white male suspect claimed later that he was a bigot who detested foreigners.

The news organization was informed that the man used a “much-used” pistol to carry out his attack and was discovered with “two or three” loaded magazines and a box containing at least 25 ammunition.

Shortly after the shootings, unrest erupted. Video captured individuals setting fires in the middle of the road and breaking car windows.

As demonstrators attempted to breach a security perimeter, police fired tear gas.

After hundreds of Kurds quietly gathered in the Place de la République to honor the three victims, Saturday’s new violence broke out.

The retired train driver is still being questioned by the police. He is currently facing an additional charge of acting with a racist motive in addition to being detained on suspicion of murder and an attempted murder.

He has a history of weapons offences, and it has come to light that the assault occurred just days after his recent release on bail.

He was accused with racist violence last year after a sword attack in another migrant camp in the French capital.

Two men and a woman were shot dead on Friday in the city’s 10th district, according to witnesses. The perpetrator was described as being tall, white, and elderly.

One of the three other injured people still has a critical state.

Before the perpetrator was taken into custody without a struggle, three locations — the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish center, a nearby restaurant, and a hair salon — came under fire.

Kurdish community leaders met with the head of the Paris police on Saturday, and they demanded stronger protection from the French government.

The shootings on Friday occurred nearly ten years after the unsolved murder of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital.

After being “traumatized” by the murders in January 2013, a lawyer for the Kurdish Democratic Council in France claimed that the community was once again “afraid” (CDK-F).

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