PARIS
Paris Public Prosecutor Francois Molins said that Omer Guney, who had been detained in connection with the killing of three Kurdish women in Paris, was the prime suspect.
Three Kurdish women --Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Soylemez-- had been found dead on January 9 at Kurdish Information Center in Paris. They had been shot in the head which appeared to be an execution-style killing.
Cansiz was a co-founder of the terrorist PKK organization.
The murders coincided with ongoing talks between Turkish intelligence officials and PKK's jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan in a bid to disarm the terrorist group.
Briefing the press about the murders, Molins said that they had the security cameras of nearby stores and saw that Guney entered and left the building twice which coincided with the time of shooting.
Molins said that Guney, who was born in Turkey's central Anatolian Sivas province in 1982, had been a PKK member for two years, adding that Guney did not confess the murders but his statements were contradictory.
We have also found gunshot residue on a bag belonging to Guney, Molins added.
Guney was sent to court.
