At least three people died and three others were injured, one of them seriously, this Friday, during a shooting in a central district of Paris, France.
The first information about the shooting, released by the newspaper Le Figaro, reveals that the action took place on rue de Enghien, in the 10th Parisian arrondissement, near the Kurdish Ahmet-Kaya Cultural Centre, in the center of the French capital.
The shooter, according to the French authorities, has already been detained. Despite this, the police ask everyone to stay away from Rue d’Enghien, where the incident took place.
According to Le Figaro, the suspect, 69 years old and of French nationality, had already been accused of two attempted murders, the first in 2016 and the second in 2021. Everything points to the fact that the crime committed today has “racist” motivations.
To AFP, a shopkeeper said they heard “seven to eight shots in the street” and that it was “total panic”. “Seven to eight shots were fired in the street, there was total panic, we were locked inside [da loja]”, told the news agency a shopkeeper in a neighboring building who requested anonymity.
The deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, has already thanked the police for their “quick intervention” and lamented what happened on Twitter. The municipality is now trying to understand what happened.
Also on social networks, the French police asked Parisians to “avoid passing through the sector” affected by the shooting, in order to also allow the intervention of rescue and emergency services in the neighborhood that includes the Grand Rex and the Porte de Saint- Denis, quoted by Noticias ao Minutos.