3 Kurdish women activists ‘assassinated’ in Paris
11 Jan 2013 6:44 AM IST
Three Kurdish women, said to include a founding member of the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), were shot dead overnight Thursday in Paris in what France’s interior minister dubbed an ‘assassination’. The women were found in the early hours with gunshot wounds to the head and neck inside a Kurdish information centre in the 10th district of the French capital, police and the centre’s director said.
French interior minister Manuel Valls visited the scene of the crime and described the killings as ‘assassinations’, but he declined to speculate when asked about a possible political motivation for the crime.
‘Three women have been shot down, killed, without doubt executed. This is a very serious incident, which is why I am here. It is completely unacceptable,’ he told reporters. French anti-terror police have opened a probe into the murders, officials said.
French interior minister Manuel Valls visited the scene of the crime and described the killings as ‘assassinations’, but he declined to speculate when asked about a possible political motivation for the crime.
‘Three women have been shot down, killed, without doubt executed. This is a very serious incident, which is why I am here. It is completely unacceptable,’ he told reporters. French anti-terror police have opened a probe into the murders, officials said.
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