The suspected assailant had recently been freed from detention while awaiting trial for a sabre attack on a migrant camp in Paris a year ago, said Paris prosecutor.
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The massacre has sparked ugly clashes between Kurdish protesters calling for better protection for their community and riot police who deployed tear gas to quell the unrest.