• The suspect was admitted to a mental health facility.
• He is charged with opening fire at a centre for Kurdish culture.
• There were total three people injured and three dead.

According to French authorities, the man suspected of carrying out a deadly attack against the Kurdish minority in Paris has admitted to having a “pathological” hatred of immigrants.

According to reports, the 69-year-old admitted to police that before starting his shooting rampage on Friday, he had planned to kill “non-European foreigners.”

After being questioned by authorities, the suspect was admitted to a mental health facility.

He is charged with opening fire at a centre for Kurdish culture, leaving three people dead and another three injured.

According to the office of the Paris prosecutor, the man, a retired train driver called William M., told police he had been “depressed” and “suicidal” after his home was burglarized in 2016.

According to the declaration, he acknowledged that since that time, his hatred of foreigners “become utterly pathological.”

According to the report, he went to Saint-Denis, a high-immigration neighbourhood in northern Paris, on Friday in an effort to kill “non-Europeans,” but there weren’t many people there.

The attack was then carried out against the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre in Paris’ 10th arrondissement.

According to the prosecution, the guy hated that town because Kurdish militia members fighting alongside the Syrian government “took detainees during their struggle against Islamic State instead of killing them.”

Before the suspect was taken into custody without a struggle, a nearby restaurant and a hair salon also came under fire.

On suspicion of murder, attempted murder, and acting with racial animus, he was jailed.

He has a history of crimes involving weapons, and it has come to light that he was granted bail just days before the attack.

In relation to a sword attack at a migrant camp in the French capital, he was charged with racist violence last year.

Unrest was caused by the shootings on Friday and Saturday. Demonstrators clashed with police, set fire to the streets, and broke car windows.

Kurds had peacefully congregated in the Place de la République to pay respect to the victims when the violence broke out.

Following the shootings, Kurds have once again urged the French government to provide them with stronger security. On Saturday, local officials met with the head of the Parisian police.

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

After being “traumatised” 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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