The altercation is said to have started because of the broadcasting of Kurdish music. A 40-year-old “of Turkish origin” was in police custody on Tuesday after having injured with scissors on Sunday in Roubaix (North) a hairdresser “of Kurdish origin”, we learned from a source close to investigation.
“A dispute took place Sunday, December 25 afternoon in Roubaix in a hairdressing salon between a client and a hairdresser, victim of a wound in the chest, the vital prognosis of which is no longer engaged”, indicated the prosecutor of Lille, Carole Etienne. The 47-year-old client, slightly injured, was taken into custody for “attempted homicide”. The investigation, entrusted to the judicial police, “is in progress in order to determine very exactly the circumstances of the facts”, added the prosecutor.
The attacker known to the police
According to the source close to the investigation, the altercation began in the hairdressing salon and continued outside, between the client “of Turkish origin” and the hairdresser of “Iraqi Kurdish” origin. The vital prognosis could be lifted after a surgical operation of this young man of 27 years, injured by several scissors by the client. According to this source, the client would have been “annoyed” by the Kurdish music played in the salon, which would have led to the altercation.
The person in custody is already known to the police, while the victim is not, the source said. The news of the attack, which occurred after the act of a French pensioner who killed three Kurds on Friday in Paris, was relayed on social networks within the Kurdish community. Kurdish organizations called for a rally on Tuesday afternoon in the Place de la République in Lille to “support the Kurdish people”, after this aggression and the events in Paris.