Five dead, only one shooter. Two days later the series of fatal shootings committed near Dunkirk, the killer, who turned himself in to the police, is still in police custody. Investigators are trying to understand his motivations.
48 hours earlier, the 22-year-old young man coldly killed five people, starting with his former boss. Paul Dekeister, director of a transport company and father of young children, is killed in cold blood in front of his family at the exit of the town of Wormhout in an isolated farmhouse.
The perpetrator is none other than his former employee who shoots several times before fleeing. It is then 3:15 p.m. and the killing has only just begun as he heads towards the Dunkirk port area at Loon-Plage. Less than an hour after killing his former employer, he attacks two security guards whom he had worked with in another company.
Then, a few kilometers further, he shoots again in front of a migrant camp on two Iranian exiles aged 19 and 30. It was around 5:20 p.m. that the 22-year-old murderer went himself to the Givelde gendarmerie, where he lives, and confessed to his five murders.
Blurred mobiles
The shooter, Paul, is a professional truck driver who still lived with his parents, a family with no history. According to the prosecution, he was unknown to the justice system. Examined during his police custody by a doctor, he is not not considered psychologically fragile. However, he did not really realize the seriousness of his actions, according to his lawyer.
In his trunk, investigators found four firearms, a 9-millimeter automatic pistol and a rifle. Member of a shooting club and son of a hunter, he would have obtained his weapons legally. According to the first elements of the investigation, the man would have thought carefully about his bloody plan which he had been preparing for several days.
According to his lawyer, Me Planckeel, he was angry with his former boss at Wormhout for not having kept him, even if the contract still needs to be examined. He explained that he had projects that he could no longer carry out. As for the two security agents, his motivations still seem quite unclear. If he is cooperative with investigators, the suspect has difficulty explaining all his actions.
The profile of the victims
As for the victims, the director of the transport company, shot first, was well known in the sector, a member of a respected family who had already been bereaved by other tragedies in the past. Concerning the two security agents aged 33 and 37, they were also recognized in the region: one for his involvement in the Dunkirk carnival and the other in a motorcycle club.
Finally, the two Iranian exiles were unfortunately in the wrong place because the alleged killer did not know them at all. They were part of a camp regularly bereaved. Flowers were placed there this weekend to pay them a final tribute.
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