The alleged perpetrator went to the Ghyvelde gendarmerie at the end of the day where he was arrested.
“He accused himself of being the author of several homicides on the Dunkirk coast,” the prefecture told AFP without further details on the circumstances.
The prefecture indicates that a judicial investigation is open. “The prosecutor is going to the site and only the Dunkirk public prosecutor’s office will communicate on the investigation,” added the prefecture.
The Northern DIPN did not immediately have information on the profile of the perpetrator and the victims, nor on the circumstances of the shooting.
In Loon-Plage, the events took place in two different places, mayor Eric Rommel told AFP.
Two security guards patrolling the port area were targeted at their workplace, he reported.
And a little further, two migrants were also killed between Loon-Plage and Dunkirk, added the elected official, without being able to give any information on the profile or motivations of the killer, who would be “originating from the urban area” of Dunkirk.
According to Sdis, law enforcement and investigators were still on site at 7:00 p.m. on the Route de Mardyck, where emergency services set up lighting devices to carry out observations and measurements.
According to firefighters, the victims could have been killed by bullets from automatic weapons.
