Paris shooting suspect has a ‘pathological hatred of foreigners’

The suspected attacker thought to have fatally shot three Kurds in Paris has admitted to a “hatred of foreigners that has become pathological”, French officials have said, Qazet.az informs.

Ever since a burglary at his home six years ago, the 69-year-old man had “always wanted to kill migrants or foreigners”, the Paris public prosecutor’s office said on Sunday.

He set out on Friday morning aiming to kill migrants or foreigners and then himself, prosecutors added.

He killed three people outside a Kurdish cultural centre and wounded three others, before being disarmed and subdued by one of the injured victims.

The suspect, reportedly a former train driver, was arrested at the scene and transferred to psychiatric care on Saturday. His name has not been released.

If he is released from psychiatric care, he faces potential charges of racially motivated murder, attempted murder and arms violations.