The 40-year-old of Turkish origin suspected of having injured a hairdresser of Kurdish origin with scissors on Sunday in Roubaix (North) was indicted for attempted homicide and imprisoned on Tuesday, the prosecution announced on Wednesday.
“The prosecution has opened a judicial investigation on the count of attempted voluntary homicide with the aggravating circumstance relating to the racist nature of the facts even if this last point is disputed by the person concerned”, indicated prosecutor Carole Etienne.
The seriously injured hairdresser
This 47-year-old man “would have first received a blow from the hair dryer and then grabbed a pair of scissors, just like the victim whose ITT was set at 3 weeks”, added the prosecutor, without further ado. details of the identity of the respondent and the victim.
The altercation would have started because the client, “of Turkish origin” was “annoyed” by the Kurdish music played in the hairdressing salon, a source close to the investigation said on Tuesday. Seriously injured in the chest from several scissors, the hairdresser, “of Iraqi Kurdish origin” and aged 27, had to be operated on, according to the same source.
Demonstration in Lille
The news of the attack, which occurred after the acting out of a French pensioner who killed three Kurds on Friday in Paris, had been relayed on social networks within the Kurdish community.
At the call of Kurdish organizations, a hundred people demonstrated Tuesday afternoon in the center of Lille, to cries in particular of “Turkey terrorist”.