Paris - (AFP) - French prosecutors said Sunday that the man who confessed to killing three Kurds on Friday in Paris had initially intended to "assassinate migrants" in a town north of the capital with a large number of residents of foreign origin, motivated by "pathological hatred".

On Saturday, the 69-year-old man's preventive detention order was lifted for health reasons, and he was transferred to the psychiatric clinic at the police headquarters.

The racial motive hypothesis has been confirmed since the attack, which left three dead and three wounded, whose health condition became stable on Sunday.

Shortly after his arrest, the shooter told the police that he did so because he was a "racist." Paris Prosecutor Laurie Bekoua revealed in a statement that while he was in police custody, he confessed to having "xenophobia that has become a pathological condition" since his house was burgled in 2016.

The suspect also described himself as "depressed" and "suicidal," and said, "But before committing suicide, I always wanted to kill immigrants, foreigners, since this robbery."

The Public Prosecutor indicated that he moved early Friday to the town of Saint-Denis, carrying his weapon, which is an "automatic pistol Colt 45 caliber 11.43 mm".

However, he "finally gave up moving in this direction due to the lack of people present and because of his clothes that prevent him from easily reloading his weapon," according to the same source.

After that, he returned to his parents' house, then went out and headed before noon to Dingyan Street in central Paris, where he learned of the existence of a Kurdish cultural center, and opened fire.

A leader in the Kurdish women's movement in France, Amina Kara, and two men, including artist and political refugee Mir Perwer, were killed in the attack. Three men were also injured, one of them seriously, but their lives are no longer in danger and one of them has left the hospital, according to the latest report issued by the Public Prosecution office on Sunday.

Five of the six victims hold Turkish citizenship, while one victim holds French citizenship.

And the Public Prosecution stated in its statement that, "Referring to his desire to attack all immigrants, he explained that he attacked victims he did not know, explaining that he was angry with the Kurds because they took prisoners while fighting against Daesh (Islamic State) instead of killing them."

She added that he "intended to use all the ammunition and kill himself with the last bullet", but several people pounced on him in a nearby barbershop before the police arrested him.

The Public Prosecutor said that the first items obtained during a search of his parents' house, where a computer and a smartphone were seized, did not prove "any link to extremist ideology."

She added that the suspect claimed that he had obtained his weapon four years ago from a member of the shooting club to which he belonged at the time, and that person had died. He hid the weapon in his parents' house and confirmed that he had not used it before.

His conviction was preceded in 2017 for carrying an unlicensed weapon, and last June for practicing violence with weapons against thieves - two cases he mentioned during the investigation - and in December 2021 he was convicted of committing premeditated and racially motivated acts of weapon violence.

He was suspected of stabbing migrants in a camp in Paris on December 8, 2021.

However, after spending a year in pretrial detention, he was released on December 12, 2022.

Friday's attack shocked the Kurdish community, which denounced it as a "terrorist" and accused Turkey of being behind it.

The failure to adopt the hypothesis of a terrorist motive from the outset raised anger and questions among the Kurdish community.

Ajit Polat, a spokesman for the Kurdish Democratic Council, said, "It is unacceptable not to talk about the terrorist character and try to suggest that he is just an extreme right-wing activist... who came to commit this attack on our headquarters."

The French capital witnessed violence and riots on the sidelines of a march in which thousands participated on Saturday.

For his part, Ibrahim Kalin, adviser to the Turkish president for foreign affairs, said in a tweet on Sunday, which he attached with pictures of burnt cars following the march in Paris, "This is the PKK in France (...) the same terrorist organization that you support in Syria."

"It is the same PKK that has killed thousands of Turks, Kurds and security forces over the past 40 years. They are setting fires today in the streets of Paris. Will you remain silent?"

In Syria, hundreds of people demonstrated Sunday in the city of Hasakah to condemn the attack and chanted slogans in Kurdish, "The martyrs do not die," "We will not forget the martyrs of Paris," and "No to the genocide of the Kurdish people."