Time.news – Clashes near Place de la republique in Paris on the sidelines of the demonstration called the day after the racist attack against a Kurdish cultural center in the French capital, which cost the lives of three people. According to BFMTV, protesters threw objects at security forces who responded with tear gas. Already yesterday there were protests and clashes against the police, accused by the Kurdish community of not having done enough to prevent hate crime.
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The demonstration with several thousand people, initially peaceful, split in two when the clashes broke out: only a few hundred demonstrators managed to reach the end of the procession at the Place de la Bastille. In the crowd, slogans praising the “resistance of the Kurdish people” rang out among many flags of the PKK, the party of Kurdish workers outlawed in Turkey, and a minute’s silence was observed in memory of the victims and “all the Kurds who died for freedom'”.
Several demonstrators expressed anger at an “injustice”, calling it a “terrorist” attack: “For us there is no doubt that they are political assassinations. The fact that our associations are targeted is of a terrorist and political nature” said Agit Polat, spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (Cdkf), deploring a “lack of security”.