A Paris prosecutor said on Sunday that a suspect accused of shooting dead three Kurdish men in Paris told investigators about his “hatred of foreigners”.
A 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after shooting dead two men and a woman at a Kurdish cultural center and a nearby Kurdish cafe in the French capital’s busy central 10th district. Police say he is believed to be the lone shooter.
The killings stunned a community preparing to mark the 10th anniversary of the unsolved murder of three activists, and prompted protests that led to clashes with police.
Prosecutor Laure Becuau said in a statement that the suspect said during questioning that a burglary at his home in 2016 had “generated a hatred of foreigners that had become completely pathological.”
