Paris shooting: Protests after deadly attack on Kurds - BBC

Violence has breached retired successful cardinal Paris aft Friday's deadly onslaught connected the city's Kurdish community.

Protesters overturned cars, mounting immoderate connected fire, and hurled objects astatine police. Officers responded by firing teardrop gas.

Three radical were killed successful Friday's attack, which took spot astatine a Kurdish taste centre and a restaurant.

The 69-year-old achromatic antheral fishy said afterwards helium was a racist who hated foreigners, a constabulary root told AFP.

The aforesaid quality bureau was told that the antheral launched his onslaught with a "much-used" pistol and was recovered with a container of astatine slightest 25 cartridges and "two oregon three" loaded magazines.

Unrest began soon aft the shootings. Footage showed radical starting fires successful the mediate of the thoroughfare and smashing car windows.

Police utilized teardrop state arsenic the protesters attempted to interruption done a information cordon.

Saturday's renewed unit unfolded aft hundreds of Kurds gathered peacefully successful the Place de la République to wage tribute to the 3 victims.

Police proceed to question the man, a retired bid driver. He is being held connected suspicion of execution and attempted execution and present besides faces the other complaint of acting with a racist motive.

He has a past of weapons offences and it has emerged that helium was released connected bail lone days earlier the assault.

Last year, helium was charged with racist unit implicit a sword onslaught astatine a migrant campy elsewhere successful the French capital.

Witnesses of Friday's shootings successful the city's 10th territory said the attacker - tall, achromatic and aged - changeable dormant 2 men and a woman.

Three others were injured, 1 of whom remains successful a captious condition.

Three places came nether occurrence - the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre, arsenic good arsenic a adjacent edifice and a hairdresser - earlier the fishy was arrested without a fight.

Kurds person called for amended extortion from the French authorities arsenic assemblage leaders met the Parisian constabulary main connected Saturday.

Friday's shootings came astir 10 years aft the execution of 3 Kurdish women activists successful the French superior - an unresolved crime.

The assemblage was again "afraid", having been "traumatised" by January 2013 murders, said a lawyer for the Kurdish antiauthoritarian assembly successful France (CDK-F).