Five people were killed on Saturday in the North, according to the gendarmerie. A person went to the police station at the end of the day, indicating that they were the perpetrator of the murders.
The man opened fire, killing four people in Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk (North) and one in Wormhout on Saturday, the gendarmerie and the prefecture said. The Northern firefighters indicate that they were called to intervene at 3:15 p.m. for a first victim in Wormhout.
5 victims in one hour
According to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of the North, it concerns a 29-year-old man, found “inanimate on a public road and lying with a bullet hole”, who died on the spot.
The firefighters were then called for reinforcements around 4:20 p.m., “for potentially gunshot wounds”, to 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.
Open investigation
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.
Two security guards and two migrants
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 “from the agglomeration” of Dunkirk.
According to Sdis, law enforcement and investigators were still on site at 7:00 p.m. on the road to 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.
