Among the victims is a man, two members of the port security in Dunkirk and two migrants from the refugee camp there, the server said with reference to a police source.
According to the local website La Voix Du Nord, a 22-year-old man later turned himself in to the police in Ghyveld and claimed that he had committed all five murders himself. The alleged perpetrator comes from the city of Dunkirk, the website said.
The newspaper Le Figaro later reported that the migrants and security guards were shot by a young man who is a French citizen near the village of Loon-Plage, which is located on the outskirts of Dunkirk and near the Mardyck refugee camp.
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According to the Act 17 news website, both members of the security forces were shot in the head.
He shot the fifth person near the village of Wormhout, the murder took place around three in the afternoon on a remote farm. According to the authorities, this is a 29-year-old manager of a local transport company. It was apparently the perpetrator’s first victim.
He killed him in front of the family
He shot the manager in front of the family. According to the wife’s statement, the manager went outside when he heard the noise of a car in the yard of his house. The driver got out and then shot at him. He then drove away from the scene of the crime in a car along the sea coast.
In the Loon-Plage industrial zone, near the refinery, two migrants of Kurdish origin crossed his path. He got out of the car to kill them with shots from an automatic weapon. Then he shot two members of the patrol guarding the port, before he himself went to the gendarmerie station, where he confessed to the murders.
“I cannot understand how this could happen. He couldn’t have come to the isolated farm just by chance,” Wormhout mayor David Calcoen told the website. The mayor of Loon-Plage, Éric Rommel, is also in shock, according to whom it is not clear whether there could be some settlement of accounts or a fit of madness in the background. The shooter’s motives remain unknown.
On Saturday evening, the authorities deployed a “large police patrol” at the scene of the shooting and its surroundings and also deployed a number of emergency services. The soldiers also arrived at the place, which was closed and inaccessible.
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