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2022 Paris Shooting
On 23 December 2022, a mass shooting occurred at three Kurds in France, Kurdish locations in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, 10th arrondissement of Paris, France. Three people were killed, and three others were wounded in and around a Kurdish cultural center on Rue d'Enghien. Investigators believe the shooting to be an act of right-wing terrorism. The suspect, 69-year-old William Mallet, has confessed to having been motivated by racism in France, racism, and declared that he "didn't like the Kurds". Background The attack came as right-wing violence is on the rise in France. The attack also comes almost ten years after the Triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris, triple murder against Kurdish activists in January 2013. Shooting The mass shooting took place on 23 December 2022, shortly before noon, on Rue d'Enghien in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, near the Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre. The assailant, armed with a M1911 pistol, Colt 45, fired three shots towards th ...
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Kurds In France
Kurds in France may refer to people born in or residing in France of full or partial Kurds origin. There is a large Kurdish community in France, numbering around 240,000 people. This makes the Kurdish community in France the second largest Kurdish community in the Kurdish diaspora, after Kurds in Germany. Immigration history In France, Kurdish immigrant workers from Turkey first arrived in the second half of the 1960s. Thousands of political Kurdish refugees fled from Turkey during the 1970s and onward, from Iraq and Iran during the 1980s and 1990s, and from Syria during the Syrian Civil War. Political activism In October 2014, Kurds in France and other European countries marched in protest at what they perceived as Turkish collaboration with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during the Siege of Kobani. On 25 July 2015, Kurds marched in Paris to protest Turkish airstrikes in Iraqi Kurdistan on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions. On 12 October 2019, thousands ...
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10th Arrondissement Of Paris
The 10th arrondissement of Paris (''Xe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, the arrondissement is referred to as ''le dixième'' (; "the tenth", formally ''le dixième arrondissement de Paris''). In 2020, it had a population of 83,459. The arrondissement, called Entrepôt (warehouse), is situated on the Rive Droite, right bank of the Seine, River Seine. It contains two of the seven large mainline List of Paris railway stations, railway stations of Paris: the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l'Est. Built during the 19th century, these two Terminal station, termini are among the List of busiest railway stations in Europe, busiest in Europe. The 10th arrondissement also contains a large portion of the Canal Saint-Martin, linking the northeastern parts of Paris with the Seine. The current mayor of the 10th arrondissement is Alexandra Cordebard since 2017. Geography The land area of the arrondisse ...
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Right-wing Terrorism
Right-wing terrorism, hard right terrorism, extreme right terrorism or far-right terrorism is terrorism that is motivated by a variety of different Right-wing politics, right-wing and far-right politics, far-right ideologies. It can be motivated by Ultraconservatism, ultranationalism, neo-Nazism, anti-communism, neo-fascism, ecofascism, ethnonationalism, religious nationalism, anti-immigration, anti-semitism, anti-government sentiment, Patriot movement, patriot movements, Sovereign citizens, sovereign citizen beliefs, and occasionally, it can be motivated by Anti-abortion movement, opposition to abortion, or homophobia. Modern right-wing terrorism largely emerged in Western Europe in the 1970s, and after the Revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it emerged in Eastern Europe and Russia. Right-wing terrorists aim to overthrow governments and replace them with right-wing regimes. They believe that their actions will trigger events that will ultimately ...
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Investigating Judge (France)
In French criminal law, the investigation phase (') in a criminal proceeding is the procedure during which an investigating judge () gathers evidence on the commission of an offense and decides whether to refer the persons charged to the trial court. The investigating judge is the first instance of investigation. In the second instance (appeals), the investigating chamber of the French courts of appeal have jurisdiction. They rule on appeals of decisions by the investigating judges and of decisions by the liberty and custody judge (). Background Inquisitorial system In an inquisitorial system, the trial judges (mostly plural in serious crimes) are inquisitors who actively participate in fact-finding public inquiry by questioning defense lawyers, prosecutors, and witnesses. They could even order certain pieces of evidence to be examined if they find presentation by the defense or prosecution to be inadequate. Prior to the case getting to trial, investigating judges partic ...
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Sword
A sword is an edged and bladed weapons, edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed tip. A slashing sword is more likely to be curved and to have a sharpened cutting edge on one or both sides of the blade. Many swords are designed for both thrusting and slashing. The precise definition of a sword varies by historical epoch and geographic region. Historically, the sword developed in the Bronze Age, evolving from the dagger; the Bronze Age sword, earliest specimens date to about 1600 BC. The later Iron Age sword remained fairly short and without a crossguard. The spatha, as it developed in the Late Roman army, became the predecessor of the European sword of the Middle Ages, at first adopted as the Migration Period sword, and only in the High Middle Ages, developed into the classical Knightly sword, ar ...
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Bercy
Bercy () is a neighbourhood in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France, the city's 47th administrative neighbourhood. History Some of the oldest vestiges of human occupation in Paris were found on the territory of Bercy, dating from the late Neolithic (between 4000 and 3800 BC). The name of Bercy, or Bercix, appeared for the first time in property deeds in the twelfth century. The area belonged for a time to the Montmorency family before passing to the Malons family, who had an old manor house expanded by François Le Vau into the Château de Bercy. In the eighteenth century, a large site located along the Seine, contiguous to the Paris city limits of the time, began to be used as a warehousing area, particularly for wine. For two hundred years, the area was the thriving centre of the Paris wine trade and a place with a unique life and culture. Bercy was formerly a commune in France, commune. In 1860, when Paris annexed its suburban zone, the commune of Bercy was dissolved. T ...
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Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis (, ) is a Communes of France, commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris. Saint-Denis is the second most populated suburb of Paris (after Boulogne-Billancourt), with a population of 113,116 at the 2020 census. It is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture () of the Departments of France, department of Seine-Saint-Denis, being the seat of the Arrondissement of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, arrondissement of Saint-Denis. It is also part of the Métropole du Grand Paris. Saint-Denis is home to the royal necropolis of the Basilica of Saint-Denis and was also the location of the associated abbey. The commune is also home to France's national association and rugby football stadium, Stade de France, which was built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. The stadium also hosted the Rugby sevens at the 2024 Summer Olympics, rugby and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics, athletics events, along with the 2024 Summer Ol ...
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SNCF
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (, , SNCF ) is France's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the Rail transport in France, country's national rail traffic along with that of Monaco, including the TGV, on France's high-speed rail network. Its functions include operation of railway services for passengers and freight (through its subsidiaries SNCF Voyageurs and Rail Logistics Europe), as well as maintenance and signalling of rail infrastructure (SNCF#Divisions, SNCF Réseau). The railway network consists of about of route, of which are high-speed lines and electrified. About 14,000 trains are operated daily. In 2010 the SNCF was ranked 22nd in France and 214th globally on the Fortune Global 500, ''Fortune'' Global 500 list. It is the main business of the SNCF Group, which in 2020 had €30 billion of sales in 120 countries. The SNCF Group employs more than 275,000 employees in France and around the worl ...
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Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis
Montreuil (), also known unofficially as Montreuil-sous-Bois (), is a Communes of France, commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris, in the Seine-Saint-Denis department and in the Métropole du Grand Paris. With a population of 111,367 as of 2020, Montreuil is the third most populous suburb of Paris after Boulogne-Billancourt and Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis. It is located north of Paris's Bois de Vincennes (in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, 12th arrondissement), on the border with Val-de-Marne. Name The name Montreuil was recorded for the first time in a royal edict of 722 as , meaning "little monastery" in Medieval Latin. The settlement of Montreuil started as a group of houses built around a small Merovingian dynasty, Merovingian monastery. History A small monastery was recorded on the site during the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingian period on a hill that overlooked Vincennes, which is most likely ...
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Emine Kara
Emine Kara, also known by the nom de guerre Evîn Goyî, (1974 – 23 December 2022) was a Turkish Kurdish militant and political activist who served as president of the . Originally from Turkey, she fled to the Kurdistan Region in Iraq in 1994 after her village was massacred. She joined the Kurdish cause in 1988 and participated in the war of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) against the Islamic State in 2014. After sustaining an injury in Raqqa, she moved to Europe for medical treatment in 2020. She was killed in the 2022 Paris shooting. Biography Born in 1974 in Hilal in the Şırnak Province, Turkey, she was the fourth child out of five. Her family moved to Iraq in 1994, where they settled in a refugee camp in Zakho before permanently moving to Makhmur. Military career Kara joined the Kurdish militant movement in 1988. She fought and campaigned for Kurdistan in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. In 2014, she joined the militias organized to defend ...
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M1911 Pistol
The Colt M1911 (also known as 1911, Colt 1911, Colt .45, or Colt Government in the case of Colt-produced models) is a single-action, recoil-operated, semi-automatic pistol chambered primarily for the .45 ACP cartridge. History Early history and adaptations The M1911 pistol originated in the late 1890s as the result of a search for a suitable self-loading (or semi-automatic) pistol to replace the variety of revolvers in service at the time. The United States was adopting new firearms at a phenomenal rate; several new pistols and two all-new service rifles ( M1892/96/98 Krag and M1895 Navy Lee), as well as a series of revolvers by Colt and Smith & Wesson for the Army and Navy, were adopted just in that decade. The next decade would see a similar pace, including the adoption of several more revolvers and an intensive search for a self-loading pistol that would culminate in the official adoption of the M1911 after the turn of the decade. Hiram S. Maxim had designed a self-l ...
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Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre
The Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre ( French: ''Centre culturel kurde Ahmet-Kaya''; Kurdish, Kurmanji: ''Navenda çanda Kurd a Ahmet Kaya'') is a Kurdish cultural center located in on in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, France. Established in Paris on 10 May 2001, the Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre promotes Kurdish culture, language, and the integration of Kurds in France. History The center is located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, at 16 Rue d'Enghien. The center is named posthumously in honor of the Turkish-Kurdish folk singer and composer, Ahmet Kaya, who was the son of a Kurdish father and Turkish mother. Kaya died of a heart attack on 16 November 2000 while living in exile from Turkey. The 2022 Attack On 23 December 2022, the Ahmet Kaya Kurdish Cultural Centre was the target of a mass shooting attack. Three people were killed in the attack on the center and two adjoining Kurdish businesses, a hairdressing salon and the Avesta Cuisine Traditionnelle Kurde r ...
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