An armed attack on the Kurdish community on the 23 December 2022 left three dead and three injured. The victims of the attack are revolutionary Evîn Goyî (Emine Kara), who only came to Europe in 2019 and previously worked on projects for displaced Yazidi people from Shengal in Rojava after decades of living in the mountains of Kurdistan; musician Mîr Perwer (M. Şirin Aydın), who fled Turkey due to a final sentence of 20 years imprisonment for alleged membership of a "terrorist organisation" and applied for political asylum in France; and Abdurrahman Kızıl, a Kurdish patriot in his 60s who was considered a memory of the cultural centre.

The attack came before the upcoming 10th year anniversary of the triple murder on 9 January 2013 of PKK founding member Sakine Cansız (Sara), KNK (Kurdistan National Congress) Paris Representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) and Kurdish youth movement member Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî) at Kurdish Information Bureau at Gare Nord.

Tens of thousands are staging a march in Paris to demand justice for the triple murders of Kurdish activists on 9 January 2013 and 23 December 2022.

Demonstrators in Paris today call for light to be shed on both massacres and for perpetrators to be exposed and brought to account.

“Long live Leader Öcalan”, “Woman, Life, Freedom”, “Martyrs are immortal”, “Long live the guerrilla resistance” and “Terrorist Erdoğan” are the slogans chanted by thousands who have started to march to the République Square where a rally will be held.

Dozens of French politicians, intellectuals, writers, academics, unionists, lawyers, representatives of Kurdish institutions and leftist-socialist organizations from Turkey are expected to speak during the rally, which will begin with a minute of silence in memory of all the martyrs.