Five gunshot deaths and a suspected murderer who goes to the gendarmerie: a man opened fire killing four people in Loon-Plage- (North) and one in Wormhout this Saturday, December 14, for reasons still unknownindicated the gendarmerie and prefecture.
Northern firefighters indicated that they were called to intervene at 3:15 p.m. for a first victim in Wormhout, in Flanders, between Lille and Dunkirk. According to the North Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis), it was 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” at Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk. Two security guards and two migrants were killed in this area, indicated the prefecture and the interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police (DIPN) of the department.
Open judicial investigation
The alleged perpetrator – who is said to be “from the urban area” of Dunkirk – finally went to the Ghyvelde gendarmerie (North) 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 indicated thata judicial investigation has been opened.
According to firefighters, the victims could have been killed by bullets from automatic weapons.
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