I always wanted to assassinate migrants and foreigners’: Bloodied Paris race-hate gunman, 69, who killed three in Paris rampage is pictured after being beaten by bystanders – as he tells police he was radicalised after his house was burgled
- William Mallet, a retired train driver, shot three Kurds dead and wounded three
- Been in a secure psychiatric unit since Friday after using U.S. Army Colt 45
- The confirmed picture of Mallet was taken in the minutes after his arrest
- Mallet had a ‘pathological hatred’ of immigrants and said: ‘I hate foreigners’
A retired French train driver arrested for shooting three Kurds dead and severely wounding three others in Paris has told prosecutors: ‘I always wanted to assassinate migrants and foreigners.’
Excerpts from William Mallet’s pre-trial interviews emerged on Monday along with his full name and a picture of the 69-year-old.
He has been in a secure psychiatric unit since Friday, when he used a U.S. Army Colt 45 to carry out the attack around a Kurd cultural centre in the 10th arrondissement of the French capital.
The confirmed picture of Mallet was taken in the minutes after his arrest, and shows his head bloodied following a fight with those who disarmed hi
Excerpts from William Mallet’s pre-trial interviews emerged on Monday along with his full name and a picture of the 69-year-old
According to Laure Beccuau, the Paris prosecutor, Mallet had a ‘pathological hatred’ of immigrants and told detectives: ‘I hate foreigners.’
He said he wanted to take his own life, but added: ‘before committing suicide, I always wanted to assassinate migrants, and foreigners.’
Mallet was on Monday afternoon expected to be presented before a judge and charged with a variety of crimes including triple murder.
All of the victims were identified by the European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress, based in Belgium. Pictured: Riots in Paris over the attack
Beccuau referred to a burglary at his Paris home in 2016 which he believed to have been carried out by immigrants – a crime that helped radicalise him.
His victims on Friday included Emine Kara, the leader of the Kurdish women’s movement in France, who was refused asylum in the country earlier this year.
This infuriated Kurdish nationalists, who accused the French authorities of not doing enough to protect her.
Mir Perwer, a popular Kurdish singer exiled in France, was also gunned down, as was Abdullah Kizil, another dissident.
All of the victims were identified by the European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress, based in Belgium.
The Kurdish Democratic Council in France has called for a demonstration on the Place de la Republique in Paris
A spokesman described them as ‘those who fell as martyrs in the attack on the Kurdish Cultural Centre in Paris.’
Witnesses said they heard also heard Mallett shouting: ‘I hate Kurds’ on Friday.
Mallet was described by another investigating source as a ‘far-Right racist fanatic’ who had just been released from prison where he was on remand following an attack on two Sudanese refugees with a sabre.
It was a year ago – on December 8 2021 – that Mallet went on the rampage in a refugee camp in Paris.
‘He used a sabre to slice two men, and damage six tents at a camp in the Bercy park in the 12th arrondissement of Paris,’ said the investigating source.
‘He was wounded when one of the refugees was disarming him. Two Sudanese refugees were badly wounded in the attack.’
Mallet was put on remand in prison, while awaiting trial for attempted murder linked to racism, but he was bailed on December 12.
Restrictions included having his French passport removed, and he was also banned from keeping any kind of weapon, while under ‘judicial supervision’.
Mallet was also convicted for ‘violent behaviour’ in 2016.
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