A gunman opened hearth at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in Paris on Friday, killing three Kurds.

The suspected gunman, a 69-year-old Frenchman, was arrested and later confessed to a “pathological” hatred for foreigners, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau stated.

The semi-autonomous Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria referred to as for the Sunday protest in Hasakeh, which drew tons of of individuals brandishing images of the three victims and calling for accountability.

“Kurds are combating towards oppression and they’re massacred all over the place, even in Paris, town of affection and freedom,” stated feminist activist Evin Basho, 33, demanding that the killer be delivered to justice.

She was amongst those that marched by means of town chanting “the martyrs of Paris are ceaselessly in our hearts” and repeating slogans towards “the extermination” of the Kurdish folks.

Usually described because the world’s largest folks with no state, the Kurds are a Muslim ethnic group unfold throughout Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

Protester Azad Suleiman, 55, advised AFP he felt Kurds have been being focused within the diaspora and at dwelling.

“It is a conflict towards our folks, concentrating on us within the 4 components of Kurdistan and even in Europe,” he stated, including he had excessive hopes that the French authorities would convey the perpetrator to justice.

“We won’t concede to the enemies in Kurdistan and we won’t abandon our revolution,” Suleiman stated.

Livid Kurdish demonstrators had clashed with French police after the assault, which revived the trauma of three unresolved murders of Kurds nearly 10 years in the past in the identical space of Paris.

French President Emmanuel Macron described Friday’s killings as an “odious assault” towards Kurds and ordered the Paris police chief to fulfill with leaders of the Kurdish group.