Three Kurdish women ‘shot dead’ in Paris, one reportedly member of separatist movement

Three kurdish women ‘shot dead’ in Paris, one reportedly member of separatist movement

Three Kurdish women have been found in Paris shot dead in the head, with one of them allegedly a PPK separatist movement co-founder.

­The women were found outside the Kurdish institute in the French capital at 1 am GMT.

“The scene [of the crime] could give rise to the idea that this was an execution, but the investigation will have to establish the exact circumstances of this incident,” a police source told AFP.

The three victims of the attack are Sakine Casiz, a co-founder of the militant PPK movement, Fidan Dogan, a representative of the National Congress of Kurdistan, an organization based in Brussels, while the third woman is young activist Leyla Soylemez, according to the Kurdish news website Actukurde.fr.

All three women were last seen on Wednesday, late in the afternoon, in the building of the Kurdish institute.

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