No less than three people were killed and 4 injured in a shooting in central Paris on Friday, the local mayor said.
An unidentified 69-year-old man opened fire on the Kurdish cultural center Ahmet-Kaya in the tenth district of town, reported Le Parisien..
The mayor of the district, Alexandra Cordebard, said three people were killed and 4 injured in a series of shots that exploded in Rue d’Enghien, a street lined with small shops and cafes. reported CNN.
The alleged gunman, a retired railroad conductor, was arrested shortly after the shooting. Prosecutors at the moment are investigating manslaughter, manslaughter and brutal violence.
An area grocer heard seven or eight shots, in accordance with the Guardian.
“It was just complete panic – everyone shut up,” she told Agence France-Presse.
The motive for the attack has not been revealed.
Parisian police he said that an investigation was ongoing and asked those in the vicinity to avoid the world, which incorporates a big shopping district in addition to the Grand Rex, often claimed to be Europe’s largest cinema.
“Thanks to the police for his or her decisive intervention this morning in the course of the terrible attack on January 10 [arrondissement]”, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo he wrote. “Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. We’re on their side.”