Kurds observe a march of grief after Paris shooting deaths.

PARIS (AP) — Members of France’s Kurdish community and others are holding a silent march Monday to honor three people killed in a shooting at a Kurdish cultural center Paris

A 69-year-old Frenchman is facing preliminary charges of racially motivated murder, attempted murder and weapons violations over Friday’s shooting, prosecutors said. The suspect told investigators that he had aimed to kill migrants or foreigners and then had planned to kill himself, and said he had a ‘’pathological’’ hatred of non-European foreigners, according to prosecutors.

After being briefly placed in psychiatric treatment, he was released back to police custody. He appeared before an investigator judge on Monday. The suspect’s name has not been officially released though he is identified by French media as William K.

The shooting shocked and infuriated the Kurdish community in France, which organized the silent march Monday from the site of Friday’s shooting to the site where three women Kurdish activists were found shot dead in 2013.

Kurdish residents claim police should have done more in protecting them. Skirmishes brokeout in the area where the killings occurred Friday and again at the sidelines. mostly peaceful Kurdish-led demonstration Saturday.

Prosecutors claim that the suspect was motivated by racism.

Left-leaning politicians as well as antiracism activists have linked this shooting to hate speech online. anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric by far-right figures. French authorities reported an increase in crimes and violations related to race or religion in the last few years.