Syrian Kurds protest against Paris attack
Hundreds of Syrian Kurds staged a protest in northern Syria in response to a deadly attack targeting members of the ethnic community in Paris this week.
A gunman opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in Paris, killing three Kurds.
The suspected gunman, a 69-year-old Frenchman, was arrested and later confessed to a "pathological" hatred for foreigners, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said.
The semi-autonomous Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria called for the protest in Hasakah, which drew hundreds of people brandishing photos of the three victims and calling for accountability.
"Kurds are fighting against oppression and they are massacred everywhere, even in Paris, the city of love and freedom," said feminist activist Evin Basho, 33, demanding that the killer be brought to justice.
She was among those who marched through the city chanting "the martyrs of Paris are forever in our hearts" and repeating slogans against "the extermination" of the Kurdish people.
Often described as the world's largest people without a state, the Kurds are a Muslim ethnic group spread across Syria, Türkiye, Iraq and Iran.
Furious Kurdish demonstrators had clashed with French police after the attack, which revived the trauma of three unsolved murders of Kurds almost 10 years ago in the same area of Paris.
