Paris shooting suspect accused of killing three people named
A man who shot dead three Kurdish people in Paris has finally been pictured and named.
William Mallet, a retired train driver, has been identified as the suspect behind the massacre at a Kurdish cultural centre in the French capital’s busy 10th district.
Two men and a woman were fatally shot, while three others were also injured, one of who then managed to disarm the gunman.
The violence has revived the trauma of three unresolved murders of Kurds in 2013 that many blame on Turkey.
Mallet’s pre-trial interviews emerged today along with his full name and a picture.
The 69-year-old has been in a secure psychiatric unit since Friday, when he used a US Army Colt 45 to carry out the attack.
A picture taken in the minutes after his arrest shows his head all covered in blood from a fight with those who disarmed him.
According to Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor, he had a ‘pathological hatred’ of immigrants and told detectives: ‘I hate foreigners.’
Mallet said he wanted to take his own life, but added: ‘Before committing suicide, I always wanted to assassinate migrants, and foreigners.’
The pensioner is set to appear before a judge this afternoon to be officially charged with a number of crimes, including triple murder.
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