Paul Domis, an unemployed 22-year-old young man, went late Saturday afternoon to the gendarmerie in Ghyvelde, a town adjoining the Belgian border where he lived with his parents.
He admitted to having successively killed on the same day a business manager in Wormhout, then two private security agents and finally two migrants of Iranian nationality near Dunkirk.
“The qualification of assassination was retained by the prosecution for the first three acts committed […] and the qualification of murder preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime, was retained by the prosecution for the last two murders,” declared Dunkirk prosecutor Charlotte Huet during a press conference.
There are still “many questions” about his motive and “no definitive conclusion can be drawn at this time,” she warned.
But “the first person who was killed in Wormhout was the last employer of the accused”: this 29-year-old business manager, shot dead in front of his home, “had fired the accused at the beginning of the month of October,” added the prosecutor.
Likewise, Paul Domis had “worked six months for the company which employed the security agents who were killed” then in Loon-Plage, in a port area near Dunkirk, she continued.
The young man did not mention a “particular dispute” with these two victims aged 33 and 37, but a resentment “focused more on the management” of their company, said the prosecutor.
Gun pointed at father and son
“The motive still needs to be investigated” regarding the last two murders of migrants from Iranian Kurdistan, who were aged 20 and 28, according to Ms. Huet.
The toll could have been even heavier: at the time of these last two murders, the alleged shooter “pointed and directed his weapon” towards two other people, a father and his son who were passing by in a car, the prosecutor stressed.
The accused is also being prosecuted for “violence with a weapon without incapacity” and “acquisition, possession, carrying and transport of category B and C weapons”.
Paul Domis, who was until then completely unknown to the police and the judicial authorities, faces life imprisonment.
His behavior during his police custody, where he answered all the questions asked by the investigators, did not reveal any elements testifying to “an alteration or abolition of discernment” and he had not consumed or drugs or alcohol, added Ms. Huet.
Five firearms were found in his car, and 12 others at his home. The crimes were committed with a 44 caliber rifle and in one of the murders, a 12 gauge shotgun was also used, she detailed.
Since 2023, Paul Domis has been a member of the sports shooting club “La Jean Bart Tir” in Leffrinckoucke, near Dunkirk.
“He was very discreet and did not make people talk about him,” René Jossien, the president of this club, told AFP on Tuesday.
Monday evening in Dunkirk, more than 200 members of the “Ultras Dunkerquois” gathered to pay tribute to one of the two security agents killed who also ensured security at the football stadium, noted an AFP correspondent.
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