PARIS, February 10, 2014 (AFP) – (Updated) The judges investigating the assassination in Paris in January 2013 of three Kurdish activists will not question immediately the French intelligence services about what they could learn the alleged murderer, Has on Monday source familiar with the matter.
The Court of Appeal of Paris has just refused to consider the request of the relatives of victims who wanted the magistrates probe including the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI), the source said.
“At the moment everything points to the involvement of Turkish services in these killings, how can we imagine that we can deny investigations that knew the French services on the presence in France of a potential Turkish agent?” Was indignant to AFP Me Antoine Comte, a lawyer relatives of murdered activists. Sakine Cansiz, Dogan Fidan and Leyla Saylemez were shot dead Jan. 9, 2013 at the Centre for Kurdish information (CIK) in Paris. A few days later, police arrested the alleged gunman, Ömer Güney, which remains to this day the only indicted in the terrorism investigation.
Questions about its possible relationship with the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) have recently been revived by playing back a recording on the internet likely to jeopardize. The Turk 30, who was the driver of one of the three victims and denies their murderer, recently refuted before the judges to be the man who speaks in this recording two speakers presented as Turkish officials. MIT has denied any involvement in the killings. Expertise is in progress on this record.
Last summer, lawyers for the victims’ relatives had asked the judges to probe the DCRI, but also the information of the Prefecture of Police of Paris, to find out what services the French knew Mr. Güney.
Based on the revelations of widespread spying on World Communications by the French secret services, lawyers felt that the electromagnetic signals emitted by portable suspect could have been collected systematically and that these data could help the investigation .
However, the judges had refused this request on September 20 to act against a refusal which lawyers appealed. The president of the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal, however, refused Jan. 22 to consider this appeal, in a decision which is without recourse, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Applications lawyers, “if they can enroll in the extension of journalistic investigation, are in fact supported by any justification relating to their real interest in respect of their contribution to the establishment of the truth in the proceedings cause, “said the president of the chamber, according to a source familiar with the matter.
“It is incomprehensible that checks which today are made even more when our request to act was made is refused,” responded Mr. Comte.
In their investigation, the magistrates are particularly interested in the route Güney, especially before his arrival in France and during his stay in Germany.
They try to trace the many telephone exchanges to Turkey of a man who had many SIM cards, including Turkey, stated another source familiar with the matter, confirming the revelations of L’Express.
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