William M., the 69-year-old suspected of having assassinated three Kurds on Friday in Paris, was indicted and remanded in custody on Monday 27 December. This retired train driver was brought before an investigating judge, who indicted him for “murder and attempted murder because of race, ethnicity, nation or religion”also for “unauthorized acquisition and possession of weapons”said a judicial source quoted by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The man, coquard in the left eye and dressed in a light blue hospital gown, remained upright in his cubicle, staring, awaiting the arrival of the judge of freedoms and detention, who confirmed his detention. Framed by an escort of five police officers, the sexagenarian with short gray-white hair and massive build confirmed his identity and then his agreement for a hearing behind closed doors. He should be held in solitary confinement and under special surveillance because of the suicidal thoughts expressed during police custody.
Earlier in the day, a white march connected the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya, at 16, rue d’Enghien, targeted Friday by William M., and 147, rue La Fayette, in the same 10e district, where three Kurdish activists from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed on January 9, 2013. Protesters chanted in Kurdish and French “Woman-Life-Freedom” and claimed « justice ».
“We will continue to demand the truth”
“We are threatened with deathhammered Agit Polat, spokesperson for the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDKF). We live and work in France, in a democracy, under the rule of law. However, we Kurds are not taken into consideration, we are not protected. Once once more, we are touched in the heart. Three of our friends were executed. We know this is a terrorist act, not a racist one. Terrorist. We will continue to fight and claim the truth. »
Like him, most demonstrators reject the thesis of the racist crime of an isolated individual and see, behind Friday’s attack, the hand of Turkey. Redin, a 54-year-old Kurd who was protesting with friends, feels “like someone without a country, without an identity, like a foreigner attacked from everywhere”.
A few young people also gathered. Ali, 26, was accompanied by three friends. “The youth are perhaps even angrier than the oldest, we grew up in France lulled by the memory of the triple assassination of 2013he says. Ten years later, nothing has changed. Things are not progressing. We just want to live like the others. »
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