Five deaths by gunshots and a suspected murderer who goes to the gendarmerie: a man opened fire, killing four people in Loon-Plage (northern France) and one in Wormhout this Saturday, for reasons still unknown, indicated gendarmerie and prefecture.
The Northern firefighters indicate that they were called to intervene at 3:15 p.m. for a first victim in Wormhout, between Lille and Dunkirk. According to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of the North, it is a 29-year-old man, found “inanimate on public highway and lying with bullet hole“, who died on the spot.
The firefighters were then called for assistance around 4:20 p.m., “for people potentially injured by bullets“, in Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk. Two security agents and two migrants were killed in this area, indicated the prefecture and the interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police (DIPN) of the department. The alleged perpetrator finally went to the gendarmerie at the end of the day. de Ghyvelde (North), also in the Dunkirk area, where he was arrested.
“He accused himself of being the author of several homicides on the Dunkirk coast“, specified the prefecture without further details on the circumstances. His car, a dark gray Berlingo, was parked on Saturday evening in front of the gendarmerie gate, in a residential area. Two men and a woman, relatives of the suspect, came out premises shortly before 10 p.m., without wishing to speak.
The prefecture indicates that a judicial investigation is open. “The prosecutor goes 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, nor on the circumstances of the shooting.
The shooter from Dunkirk?
In Loon-Plage, the events took place in two separate locations, said Mayor Eric Rommel. Two security officers patrolling the port area were targeted in the area where they were working, he reported. And a little further, also between Loon-Plage and Dunkirk, two migrants were killed, added the elected official, without being able to give any information on the profile or motivations of the killer, who would be “from the urban area” from Dunkirk.
On site, a large police force was deployed, flashing lights on, to block access to the Mardyck road, leading to the port area where one of the numerous migrant camps on the coast is also located. CRS buses were parked not far from the small tents set up near the road, in a deserted and windswept industrial zone two kilometers from the center of Loon-Plage, in the direction of Dunkirk.
According to Sdis, emergency services have set up lighting devices to carry out observations and measurements. According to firefighters, the victims could have been killed by bullets from automatic weapons. The vice-president of the urban community of Dunkirk Martial Beyaert deplored on Facebook a “drama“, evoking “five people murdered by a sniper“.
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