LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon returns in a blog post on Monday to the deadly shooting at a Kurdish cultural center in Paris, saying he does not believe in “chanceand claiming a referral to the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office.
“We do not believe that the assassin went by chance to the place and time of a meeting of Kurdish women to prepare the commemoration of the assassination ten years ago of the three Kurdish leaders“, he writes, pointing out that these murders have still not been solved and remain according to him under the seal of the”top secret“.
A 69-year-old man opened fire on Friday outside a Kurdish cultural center in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, killing three people. He admitted in police custody that he wanted to kill foreigners. He was to be presented to an examining magistrate on Monday.
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The Paris public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for assassination, attempted assassination, intentional violence with weapons and violation of the legislation on weapons, entrusted to the judicial police. But the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office did not take up the case. “Obviously, we cannot envisage anything without thinking of Turkey», continues Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The Insoumis findscurious (…) all that followed“since the release of the alleged perpetrator”until its clandestine armament in twelve days“.
Initially placed in pre-trial detention after an indictment for acts of violence with weapons dating back to December 8, 2021, the suspect was released on December 12 on bail, as required by law after one year, and placed under judicial control.
“I presented the demands of our parliamentarians and our action committee on the subject: total lifting of defense secrecy on the file ten years ago, referral to the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office on the assassinations of December 23“, pleads Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “From all these points of view, the affair of the assassination of the Kurds on December 23 is not a news item. (…) It is a serious political fact of internal and external security“, he concludes.