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Kurdish activist and anti-racism group stage a protest against the recent shooting at the Kurdish culture centre, holding Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, flag in Paris, Saturday, December 24, 2022
THOUSANDS attended a funeral in Paris on Tuesday for three Kurds shot dead in a racially motivated attack in December.
The ceremony at Villiers-le-Bel, north of Paris, saw many mourners wrapped in the flags of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Kurdish-controlled Rojava territory in northern Syria.
The huge crowd followed the funeral on giant screens erected in the car park, showing the coffins surrounded by wreaths beneath a portrait of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan.
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