The man who went to the gendarmerie on Saturday, accusing himself of five murders committed in the afternoon around Dunkirk, was not known to the police, and his motive remained unclear the day after the events.
The alleged killer, aged 22, was taken into custody after presenting himself to the gendarmerie in Ghyvelde (North) on Saturday around 5:20 p.m., two hours after the first murder.
Il “is unknown to the police and the judicial authorities”et “several firearms were found in his car”indicated Dunkirk public prosecutor Charlotte Huet in a press release.
The investigation was opened to “murders preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime” et “acquisition, possession, carrying and transport of category A and B weapons”acts punishable by life imprisonment.
It was entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS) of the interdepartmental service of the judicial police of the North (SIPJ 59), again according to the press release.
The prosecutor emphasized that “numerous investigations are underway” especially for “clarify the reasons which led the accused to commit these crimes”.
According to a source close to the case, among the avenues considered, there could have been a professional dispute between the alleged shooter and the two companies in which the first three victims worked.
The five murders were committed in less than two hours, between Flanders and Dunkirk.
The bloody series began in Wormhout (North), in Flanders between Lille and Dunkirk, where a 29-year-old man was killed by several gunshots, “in front of his home”indicates the prosecution.
The town hall of Wormhout paid tribute to a “business manager”who ran a small road transport company.
Then around 4:00 p.m., two security agents aged 33 and 37 who were patrolling the work site were in turn killed by several gunshots in the outskirts of Loon-Plage in the direction of Dunkirk, specifies the prosecution.
CRS block a road near a migrant camp where two security guards and two migrants were shot dead, near Dunkirk, December 14, 2024 in the North / Bernard BARRON / AFP
The events took place in a vast industrial port zone where oil installations are scattered across vast grassy areas crossed by deserted roads.
Tributes have flourished on Facebook to the two thirty-somethings known for having provided security for balls as part of the Dunkirk carnival.
A few minutes later, still on the outskirts of Loon-Plage, almost five kilometers further, two last men, who “could be of Iranian nationality, aged between 19 and 30” were also shot, says the prosecution.
According to the prefecture and the police, these are two migrants.
A large police force was deployed on Saturday evening to block access to the Mardyck road, leading to the port area where one of the many migrant camps on the coast is also located.
