international desk: Hundreds of Syrian Kurds staged a protest in northern Syria on Sunday in response to a deadly attack targeting members of the ethnic community in Paris this week.
A gunman opened fire 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 said.
The semi-autonomous Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria called for the Sunday protest in Hasakeh, which drew hundreds of people brandishing photos of the three victims and calling for accountability.
‘Kurds are fighting against oppression and they are massacred everywhere, even in Paris, the city of love and freedom,’ said feminist activist Evin Basho, 33, demanding that the killer be brought to justice.
