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 this Monday, December 16 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 her lawyer, Véronique Planckeel. The lawyer is however not “not sure if this boy really understands the consequences of his actions“nor that he”knows what to answer himself” to the investigators.
“Many gray areas remain”
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 his former employer, but “we do not know how the employment contract was terminated“, she emphasizes. Despite this animosity, “the mobile, we don’t know it, 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 sightit seems, that’s all“, indicates the lawyer. Finally, she adds, for the moment there is no “no explanation” to 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” et “several firearms were found in his car“, indicated the Dunkirk prosecutor, Charlotte Huet, on Sunday. 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.
Monday morning, Véronique Planckeel had not been informed of an extension of her client’s police custody. But, “given the finding of offenses against weapons legislation, this (custody) can last up to 96 hours, that is to say until Wednesday“, said the prosecutor on Sunday.
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