Investigation into Paris Assassination has reached a crucial stage
Wednesday, 14 November 2012 
Paris, 13 November 2012 – According to today’s French newspaper, “Le Parisien”, the investigation into the assassination of Nadarajah Mathinthiran alias Parithi, a Tamil activist and a French citizen has reached a crucial stage.
The French criminal investigation team told the media that one of the suspects in their custody said; "he has been contacted by someone close to the Sri Lanka embassy in France and he was told that in return for the execution of this Tamil leader, he would be given 50.000 Euros and a Sri Lankan passport. All these elements are being verified."
“Le Parisien” says :
Le Parisien, 13 novembre 2012 - « Selon nos informations, un des deux suspects en garde a vue aurait fait de troublantes confidences aux enquêteurs de la brigade criminelle, chargée de ce dossier sensible « Cet homme a affirme avoir été contactée par un proche de l’ambassade du Sri Lanka en France avant de se voir proposer 50,000 euros et un passeport sri lankaise, en change de l’exécution de ce leader tamoul, poursuit la même source. Tous ces éléments sont en cours de vérifications » (excerpt)
This is, in English; “According to our information, out of two suspects in our custody, one told the criminal investigation team, he has been contacted by someone close to the Sri Lanka embassy in France, he was told that in return for the execution of this Tamil leader, he would be given 50.000 Euros and a Sri Lankan passport. All these elements are being verified" (excerpt)
On 12 November 2012, the same news paper, “Le Parisien”, published the following:
“A man was arrested on Sunday 11 November, after the murder of a leader of the Tamil Tigers, Nov. 8, at 21: 30 pm, in the 20th arrondissement in Paris. The suspect, aged 33, a Sri Lankan was arrested by homicide investigators in the suburb known as Villeneuve-Saint-George. After few hours, the second suspect was arrested in the 18th district of Paris in area known as La Chapelle.
On 8th November 2012, Parithi Mathinthiran Nadarajah, 49, was shot in the back with three 9mm bullets as he left the Tamil Coordinating Committee of France (CCTF) office, in rue des Pyrenees”
So far, even though the French investigators have not disclosed the identity of either suspect, there are many deliberate rumours being spread in Europe and UK that both suspects arrested were Singhalese. This is with the motive of creating communal clashes among the diaspora in foreign countries.
Analysts say that if this assassination had taken place in any part of Sri Lanka, there would have been no investigation at all, nor arrests. That has been the routine in the case of many killings of politicians, journalists, religious leaders and others in Sri Lanka.
According to reliable sources, the Sri Lankan government is doing its best not to give any importance to news items regarding the assassination of Nadarajah Mathinthiran alias Parithi. The Sri Lanka government is at a critical juncture, where the UN resolution, the UPR report and the leaked draft UN internal report are all highly critical of it. Sri Lanka fears these will backfire on them at the forthcoming session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, in March 2013.
Every day there are vigils taking place at the spot where the assassination took place in Paris. Memorial meetings are taking place in many western countries for the assassinated leader Nadarajah Mathinthiran alias Parithi.
