The man who went to the gendarmerie on Saturday, December 14, accusing himself of five murders committed in the afternoon around Dunkirk, is not known to the police, reported the Dunkirk prosecutor in a communicated on Sunday.
The man, aged 22 and placed in police custody, “is unknown to the police and the judicial authorities”et “several firearms were found in his car”specified public prosecutor Charlotte Huet.
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 are 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 victims are a twenty-nine-year-old man, killed in front of his home, two security agents in the exercise of their duties, and two men who “could be of Iranian nationality, aged between 19 and 30 and staying in the neighboring camp”. According to the prefecture and the police, they are two migrants.
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Northern firefighters claim to have been 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 public highway and lying with bullet impact”who died on the spot.
Two relatives of the suspect heard
The firefighters were then called for assistance around 4:20 p.m. “for those potentially injured by bullets”at Loon-Plage, near Dunkirk. Two security agents and two migrants were killed in this area, reported the prefecture and the interdepartmental Directorate of the National Police (DIPN) of the department.
In Loon-Plage, the events took place in two separate places, mayor Eric Rommel told AFP. 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 “originating from the urban area” from Dunkirk.
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 Agence France-Presse (AFP) without further details on the circumstances. His car, a dark gray Berlingo, was parked on Saturday evening in front of the police gate, in a residential area, AFP noted.
Two men and a woman, relatives of the suspect, left the premises shortly before 10 p.m., without wishing to speak. The Northern DIPN did not immediately have any information on the profile of the perpetrator, nor on the circumstances of the shooting.
