On December 14, 2024, five people were killed in the North. A man turned himself in and confessed to the facts. This main suspect, aged 22, was taken into police custody and interviewed.
A tragedy as terrible as it is unpredictable. On Sunday, a 22-year-old man went to the police station to confess that he had just killed five people. Acts committed in Dunkirk, in the Nord department, in Hauts-de-France. Arrested, this 22-year-old man was interviewed by investigators.
He lived with his parents
According to our colleagues at TF1 Infothis young man, described as “normal”lived with his parents. The investigators also describe an ordinary-looking family.
Saturday evening, after being informed of the facts, “his parents came to the gendarmerie, they are devastated, it's incomprehensible”, explained the suspect's lawyer, Me Véronique Planckeel.
He surrendered
The suspect went to the police after the quintuple murder. According to his lawyer, “not sure if this boy really understands the consequences of his actions.” The young man wanted “explain yourself to the police” more “didn't realize what he had done”, defends the magistrate.
Revenge as a motive
It is “for revenge” what the twenty-year-old would have done. According to our colleagues, the suspect was targeting some of the people killed.
And in particular its former employer, for whom he had worked until this fall. In the columns of Parisiana relative of the victim specifies that “my nephew hired this gangster as a seasonal driver”. More “We do not know how the employment contract was terminated”reports Me Véronique Planckeel.
As for the two security agents killed that afternoon, they were two former colleagues of the suspect. But presumably he barely knew them. Concerning the two migrants, also fatally affected, the twenty-year-old has not yet given any explanation.
Unknown to the police
The suspected shooter has a clean criminal record. It is currently unknown how he obtained the firearms found in his vehicle.
He was taken into custody for “the acquisition, possession, carrying and transport of category A and B weapons” and for “murders preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime”.
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