Police fire tear gas to quell protesters
at deadly capture website in Paris
French police fired tear gas on Friday amid clashes with agitated protesters
outside a Kurdish network center in the heart of Paris
where a gunman previously killed three people and
wounded four others in an attack with possible racist overtones.
The three humans killed in and near the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish
cultural center on Rue d'Enghien were Kurdish
The alleged attacker, a 69-year-old Frenchman with
an extended thief card, has been arrested.
He was no longer part of any police-supervised far-right organization,
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters
at the scene. "He (the suspect) clearly wanted to take it
out on foreigners," Darmanin said.
Clashes with dozens of protesters,
mostly from the Kurdish diaspora, broke out at some
point during Darmanin's visit to the online website
of the attack on Friday.
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