The man suspected of the five murders on Saturday in the North, had resentment against his first victim, who was his former employer, AFP learned Monday from his lawyer, for whom “many gray areas remain” nevertheless on the mobile.
Placed in police custody on Saturday afternoon after going himself to the Ghyvelde gendarmerie (North), the 22-year-old suspect “spontaneously recognized the facts and is very composed, very calm”, assures AFP his lawyer, Véronique Planckeel.
The lawyer is, however, “not sure that this boy really understands the consequences of his actions” nor that he “knows what to answer” to investigators.
Véronique Planckeel claims that her client was angry with his first victim, a 29-year-old man killed around 3:15 p.m. in front of his home in Wormhout, who ran a road transport company.
This man was her former employer, but “we do not know how the employment contract was terminated,” she emphasizes.
Despite this animosity, “we don't know the motive, not really (…) Many gray areas remain”, she adds.
Concerning the two security agents killed almost an hour later at their workplace in Loon-Plage, on the outskirts of Dunkirk, “he knew one by sight, it seems, that's all”, indicates the lawyer.
Finally, she adds, there is currently “no explanation” for the murder of two migrants, who could be of Iranian nationality, according to the Dunkirk public prosecutor's office, near a camp.
The suspect “is unknown to the police and the judicial authority” and “several firearms were found in his car”, Dunkirk prosecutor Charlotte Huet said on Sunday.
The investigation was opened for “murders preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime” and “acquisition, possession, carrying and transport of category A and B weapons”, acts punishable by life imprisonment.
Monday morning, Véronique Planckeel had not been informed of an extension of her client's police custody. But, “taking into account the observation of offenses against the legislation on weapons, this (custody) can last up to 96 hours, that is to say until Wednesday”, specified the prosecutor on Sunday.
