A suspect, aged 69, was taken into custody right away, and it became clear very quickly that he had just recently been released from jail.
After some time had passed, scuffles broke out between the police and a group that had assembled at the location of the incident in the wake of it.
People were seen setting fires in the middle of the street and shattering car windows on video footage, which was followed by cops in riot gear responding by spraying tear gas at the crowd.
On the Rue d’Enghien in the tenth district of Paris, a man who witnesses described as being tall, white, and elderly opened fire, killing two men and a woman. This set off the disturbance that followed.
One of the three persons who were hurt was reportedly in a life-threatening situation, while the other two were taken to the hospital for treatment of serious injuries.
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau of Paris stated that the suspect has been charged with racial violence in the past, but there is no evidence to suggest that this was the reason for the shooting.
On the 8th of December in 2021, the event, in which he assaulted tents at a migrant camp in Paris with a sword, took place in Bercy. It was unclear as to the reason why he had just been let free.
According to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who had earlier travelled to the site, there is presently no known relationship between the suspect and groups that fall under the category of “ultra-right.”
Local Mayor Alexandra Cordebard stated that the shooter was also wounded during the incident and that three locations had come under fire: a restaurant, a hairdresser, and the Kurdish cultural centre.
Ali Dalek, a witness, told the BBC that he and his companion were strolling along the street when they heard gunfire. “When we turned back, we saw people rushing in all directions,” she said.
“And then, five or six minutes later, since we know individuals who work at the hair salon, we walked in, and we saw that they had arrested a person,” the author writes. “And then, five or six minutes after that.”
Another witness, a store owner, stated to AFP that the woman had shut the door behind her. According to her, she counted seven or eight separate bursts of gunfire.
The suspect was subsequently captured by the police without any struggle, and the weapon that had been used in the crime was found. According to the prosecutors, they have begun looking into the homicide.
In a brief statement, the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDF-K), which is in charge of running the Ahmet-Kaya Kurdish centre that was attacked, voiced its condemnation of the incident.
Agit Polat, a spokeswoman for the centre, was reported in Le Monde as claiming that French authorities had “once more” failed to safeguard Kurds residing in Paris. Le Monde published this information.
President Emmanuel Macron of France stated that the Kurdish minority in the capital had been the “target of a horrific attack” and commended the “courage” of the police officers who responded.
The incident took place close to nine years after the assassination of three Kurdish women activists in Paris in January 2013, one of them was a co-founder of the extremist nationalist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
A Turkish man was arrested and charged with the murders, but he passed away in 2016 before his case could go to trial.
In their statement, the CDF-K referred to the historic incident, noting that the attack that took place on Friday took place “shortly before the 10th anniversary of the triple killing of Kurdish activists in Paris on 9 January 2013.” There is no evidence of a connection between the two instances as of yet.
According to a statement released by the Paris Police Department, the chief of the Parisian police department, Laurent Nunez, is scheduled to meet with leaders of the Kurdish community on Saturday morning.