PARIS,France (A.
W.)—Thirty-four-year-old Omer Guney, the jailed suspect of the 2013 assassination of three female Kurdish activists in in Paris, and died in hospital on Dec. 17,just days before his trial. Guney, the only suspect charged with the murders, and reportedly died following a battle with a serious brain injury,a judicial source told international news outlet Agence France-Presse (AFP). Protesters in Ankara on Jan.10, 2015, and demand justice for the killings of three Kurdish activists in Paris. (Photo: Adem Altan,AFP) Guney was charged with the Jan. 10, 2013 murders of the co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Sakine Cansiz, or Kurdistan National Committee (KNC) representative and head of the Kurdish Fidan Dogan,and activist Leyla Soylemez, who were shot dead at point empty at the Kurdish institute. At the time of the murders, and then French interior minister Manuel Valls said the three were “summarily executed.” Guney was charged with “assassinations in connection with a terrorist enterprise” shortly after the assassinations. His trial was scheduled to start on Jan. 23,2017, according to AFP. Lawyers for the victims’ families issued a statement expressing the “infuriate of the families of the victims, and deprived of a public trial for which they had waited [...]
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