Dor four days, an entire department has been silent with amazement, stunned by horror. Saturday December 14, five murders were committed in the space of two hours, in two towns near Dunkirk (North). From Wormhout to Loon-Plage, a 29-year-old man sowed death in his path. And left the inhabitants in complete misunderstanding.
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The events start on Saturday around 3 p.m. in Wormhout. According to the Dunkirk public prosecutor’s office, a 29-year-old man was killed in front of his home by several gunshots. The gendarmerie, notified around 3:15 p.m., discovered the victim in the courtyard of his home. An hour later, around 4 p.m., two security agents aged 33 and 37 were shot by the same murderer.
ALSO READ Murder of Philippine: conviction for rape, OQTF… What we know about the suspect arrested in SwitzerlandThey were then patrolling their workplace, on the outskirts of Loon-Plage, in an industrial port zone. Loon-Plage is located twenty-five minutes by car from Wormhout. It was not far from there that the last two men were also killed, a few minutes later.
The main suspect, a 22-year-old man, went around 5:20 p.m., two hours after the first crime, to the Ghyvelde gendarmerie, a few hundred meters from the family home (and twenty minutes from Loon-Plage). He then accused himself of the five murders committed and was immediately placed in police custody, then interviewed by investigators.
A triple indictment
Kept for 72 hours, Paul D., the main suspect, ended up being indicted on Tuesday, December 17, for assassinations concerning the first three victims. For the other two, he is being prosecuted for “murders preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime”. Finally, he was indicted for violence with a weapon.
ALSO READ Murder of a teenager in Aulnay-sous-Bois: minors in police custodyIndeed, the public prosecutor of Dunkirk, Charlotte Huet, indicated that he had “directed and pointed his weapon” towards two other people, a father and his son who were traveling in a car and “passed very quickly”.
These facts would have taken place at the same time as the last two murders. “The criminal journey raises questions. It is rare both in terms of the nature of the facts and the number of victims,” she said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Victims more or less linked to the suspect
The first victim, Paul Dekeister, was the head of a repair company and father of two children. According to France 3 Hauts-de-France, he could be the former employer of the main suspect. The municipality of Wormhout deplored, on Facebook, “the assassination of a business manager” which leaves “bereaved families and devastated loved ones”.
ALSO READ Cyclist killed in Paris: motorist imprisoned after being indicted for murderThe two security agents, Aurélien Cugny and Marc Lehmus, were employed for numerous events in the region, specifies The Parisian. They seemed to be well known to Dunkirk residents, having had to secure balls and other carnivals in the region. Marc Lehmus was also a member of the Loon-Plage motorcycle club.
Finally, the two men killed last, aged 19 and 30, were probably of Iranian nationality. According to the prefecture, they were two migrants. “Two of the victims were exiled people who were surviving in one of the informal camps in the region and had the hope of reaching England,” reports the Utopia 56 association.
A killer with unclear motivations
One of the immense unknowns that will now have to be resolved concerns the profile of the killer. What are the motivations of this 22-year-old man, who “is unknown to the police and the judicial authorities”, according to the prosecutor, but who hid several firearms in his car? According to her, he was fully aware of his actions and his discernment cannot be refuted.
According to BFM, the alleged assassin was discreet in nature. Originally from Ghyvelde and unemployed, “he was never outside, while we were all the time. We didn’t really see it. I think he was all alone, withdrawn. I never saw anyone go to his house,” explains Johan, a neighbor. Owner of several registered weapons, he belongs to a shooting club.
ALSO READ Course of events, background: what we know about the murder of little CélyaAccording to information from Agence France-Presse, a professional dispute could be at the origin of the murder of the first three victims. He was allegedly fired in October by Paul Dekeister, the first victim. He also worked for six months in a subsidiary of Eamus Cork Security (ECS), the company in which the two security officers work.
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He had completed a period of training and professionalization contract without a dispute between them having been detected until then. The suspect “resigned from his mission before the end of his training, apparently […] to follow training, I believe, in road transit,” said Patrick Guerbette, founder of ECS, during a speech Tuesday afternoon, according to West France.
ALSO READ Death of Shemseddine in Viry-Châtillon: the hypothesis of an “honor killing” at the heart of the investigationBut what motivated the action for the last two? Chance? Having taken up residence in the local migrant camp, are they the collateral victims of the murderer? The targets of a racist crime? At this time, no leads have been ruled out.
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