Kurds clash with police in Paris for second day after killings - Reuters

PARIS, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Clashes broke retired for a 2nd time successful Paris connected Saturday betwixt constabulary and members of the Kurdish assemblage aggravated astatine the sidesplitting connected Friday of 3 members of their community.

Cars were overturned, astatine slightest 1 conveyance was burned and tiny fires acceptable alight adjacent Republic Square, the accepted venue for demonstrations successful the metropolis wherever Kurds earlier held a peaceful protest.

Clashes broke retired arsenic immoderate demonstrators near the square, throwing projectiles astatine constabulary who responded with teardrop gas. Skirmishes continued for astir 2 hours earlier the protesters dispersed.

A gunman carried retired the killings astatine a Kurdish taste centre and adjacent cafe connected Friday successful a engaged portion of Paris' 10th district, stunning a assemblage preparing to commemorate the 10th day of the unresolved execution of 3 activists.

Police arrested a 69-year-old antheral who the authorities said had precocious been freed from detention portion awaiting proceedings for a sabre onslaught connected a migrant campy successful Paris a twelvemonth ago.

Following questioning of the suspect, investigators had added a suspected racist motive to archetypal accusations of execution and unit with weapons, the prosecutor's bureau said connected Saturday.

After an aggravated assemblage clashed with constabulary connected Friday afternoon, the Kurdish antiauthoritarian assembly successful France (CDK-F) organised a gathering connected Saturday astatine Republic Square.

Hundreds of Kurdish protesters, joined by politicians including the politician of Paris' 10th district, waved flags and listened to tributes to the victims.

"We are not being protected astatine all. In 10 years, six Kurdish activists person been killed successful the bosom of Paris successful wide daylight," Berivan Firat, a spokesperson for the CDK-F, told BFM TV astatine the demonstration.

She said the lawsuit turned convulsive aft immoderate protesters were provoked by radical successful a passing conveyance who displayed a Turkish emblem and made a nationalistic gesture.

Friday's murders came up of the day of the killings of 3 Kurdish women successful Paris successful January 2013.

An probe was dropped aft the main fishy died soon earlier coming to trial, earlier being re-opened successful 2019.

"The Kurdish assemblage is afraid. It was already traumatised by the triple execution (in 2013). It needs answers, enactment and consideration," David Andic, a lawyer representing the CDK-F, told reporters connected Friday.

Kurdish representatives, who met with Paris' constabulary main connected Saturday, reiterated their telephone for Friday's shooting to beryllium considered a panic attack.

The questioning of the fishy was continuing, the prosecutor's bureau added.

Reporting by Manuel Ausloos, Antony Paone, Gus Trompiz, Kate Entringer and Caroline Pailliez; editing by Philippa Fletcher and Nick Macfie

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