Paul D. went to the police to confess to being the author of the quintuple murder which took place on Saturday December 14, near Dunkirk. His profile is becoming clearer.
It is a real, incomprehensible drama which took place in the North of France on Saturday December 14. Around Dunkirk, five people were found dead, shot. A 22-year-old young man went to the gendarmerie at the end of the day and admitted to having targeted them. He was placed in police custody where he must explain the motivations for his action. According to Dunkirk public prosecutor Charlotte Huet, “this measure can last up to 96 hours, that is to say until Wednesday”.
What happened, and who are the victims? The first, killed at her home in Wormhout, was the 29-year-old head of a repair company, reports The Mountain. He was inside his home, with his wife and children, when he heard a vehicle driving in the courtyard of their home, shortly after 3 p.m. Alerted, the man, called Paul Dekeister, left his home to find out the origin of this noise. The shooter then got out of his car and fired several shots before leaving. Arriving on site at 3:15 p.m., the police noted the death of the victim. According to France Bleu Nord, Paul Dekeister would be the former employer of the alleged murderer.
The day after the tragedy, the mayor of the town addressed a few words in tribute to the victim: “Losing one of his own, a father of a family… deplores David Calcoen. We are truly in a state of emotion and incomprehension “We met the family at the scene and obviously it's very complicated… It's a shock for the whole town.”
The alleged killer, also named Paul D., then went to Loon-Plage, 27 km from Wormhout, where he killed four other people, around 4 p.m. Two of them were security agents, Aurélien and Marc, who patrolled by car in the Dunkirk port areanear the Flanders refinery, relates The Parisian. They were reportedly former colleagues of the alleged shooter, and were 33 and 37 years old.
A suspicion of “psychological fragilities”
The last two victims, found a few kilometers away, were migrants called Mustafa and Ahmid. Aged 19 and 30, they took up residence in the Loon-Plage migrant camp. The two men, undoubtedly of Iranian Kurdish nationality, were perhaps collateral victims of the “suspect appearing to suffer from psychological fragilities” according to Le Parisien. Despite everything, no avenue has been ruled out.
Already in February, another migrant lost his life in the same camp. The two victims were simply walking near the railway tracks in Loon-Plage when they were targeted by the alleged killer.
Paul D., who went to the Ghyvelde gendarmerie, 25 kilometers from Loon-Plage, was until then unknown to the justice system. He was born in Dunkirk and grew up in Ghyvelde. He would be a truck driver, indicates The Parisian. He would have joined a shooting club, which probably explains the four weapons found in his vehicle, parked in front of the gendarmerie gate. The car was then sealed by the police. The alleged murderer is also said to be the legal possessor of a Smith and Wesson 44 Remington rifle, although it is not yet known whether he had it on him at the time of the incident.
Paul D., grew up with his parents and his brother in a suburban neighborhood where dozens of brick houses are lined up. Upon learning the facts, his neighbor was stunned: “He's the nicest guy you could ever know! He's basically a hunter, but he's a nice guy, he's a trucker. He's had all his driving license in one go and then he went straight to work,” she told Le Parisien.
The motives for his actions are still a mystery. The murder of Paul Dekeister, however, appears premeditated. To shed light on this affair, a blatant investigation was opened by the Dunkirk public prosecutor's office to be entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS) of the interdepartmental service of the judicial police of the North (SIPJ 59).
