Five deaths by gunshots and a suspected murderer who goes to the gendarmerie: a man opened fire killing four people in Loon-Plage (North) and one in Wormhout on Saturday, for reasons still unknown, indicated the gendarmerie and prefecture.
Northern firefighters indicate 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 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.
The alleged perpetrator finally went at the end of the day to the Ghyvelde gendarmerie (North), also in the Dunkirk area, 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.
On site, a large police force was deployed, flashing lights on, and blocked access to the Mardyck road, leading to the port area where one of the many 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.
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