ANF has gathered some significant information about Ömer Güney, the suspect in the killings of Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris, and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement, in Paris on 9 January. ANF found out that Güney has German citizenship as well.
It is already known that Güney, who has been under arrest in connection with the killings since 19 January, had lived in Germany from 2003 to 2012. According to reports, Güney moved to France with his family when he was a child and then moved to Germany in 2003 when he is said to have married a relative of his. Güney reportedly lived in the state of Bavaria until 2009 and then moved to the town of Schliersee near Munich. Despite the fact that Güney, according to his landlord, lived there till August of 2012, he became a member of the Kurdish Association in Villiers-le-Bel in November of 2011.
According to the information we obtained, dual citizen Güney was once sued in Germany for violating the gun laws. We however couldn't get any information about the case result.
In a  parliamentary question presented to the German Bundestag, the national parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, early this week, German Left Party asked about the joint work Germany conducted with French authorities to shed light on Paris killings. The parliamentary question should be answered within two weeks but when examining the reports by the German media, it appears that Germany is not exchange much information on the Paris killings with the French state. Güney's past and connections in Germany however leave German authorities no choice but to have a critical place in shedding light on the killigs.
German Left Party deputy Ulla Jelpke, who presented the parliamentary question titled "Assassination plots against Kurdish politicians in the diaspora", also called attention to Germany's critical role in the killings, in a statement to Yeni Özgür Politika this week.
Jelpke remarked that the suspect, Ömer Güney, lived in Germany and had a criminal past, and added; "It is difficult to understand why German and French investigating authorities have yet not started a comprehensive joint work on these killings. The German authorities should do their best to help with the investigation on the murder of these three revolutionary women".