Five people were killed by “precision shots to the head” in and around a migrant camp near Dunkirk in northern France, with a man confessing to the shootings surrendering to police hours later.
A 22-year-old Frenchman identified as “Paul D” surrendered to police on Saturday after a series of shootings that left five people dead near a migrant camp in Dunkirk, France. french newspaper le figaro state Investigators found a firearm stored in the man's car, and paramedics told the magazine that the victim's injuries may have been caused by an “automatic weapon.”
Five victims were killed in three separate shootings, the first of which occurred at a farmhouse in Wormhout, a small town a little inland from Dunkirk. A local transportation company owner was killed in front of his family in the courtyard of his home by a gunman who fled in his car.
Shortly thereafter, two immigrants took up residence at the facility. mardic migrant camp Shot near Dunkirk. british newspaper daily telegraph Citation of source During the investigation into the murders, it emerged that both men were Iraqi Kurds who, like all migrants at the Dunkirk camp, were being smuggled into the UK by human traffickers.
Broadcasting station Sky News states that he spoke Friends of the two murdered Kurdish men said they were turned back after spending a day walking back to Britain on a smuggling boat. They said the slain men were called Hamid and Hadi and reportedly said: I saw Azrael [the Islamic Angel of Death]…We saw death with our own eyes. It was God's will that we survived. We saw death twice in one day. ”
Two more killings occurred nearby, including two security guards employed at a large local oil warehouse and port. The self-proclaimed gunman was reportedly a former employee of the port and “appeared to have been involved in a long-running dispute with a security company,” and the dead security guard may have been a former colleague.
The man has no known prior crimes or charges to police and is described as the legal custodian of the repeating rifle.
of telegraph The report cited law enforcement sources and said the killings were all “accurate gunshots to the head, suggesting the perpetrators were experienced with firearms.”
Dunkirk and the surrounding area have long been the center of a large-scale, multi-million dollar smuggling operation to get migrants into the UK, bypassing normal routes and passport control. Camps like Grande Synthe and Mardic grow and shrink as factors such as weather and police action push migrants into and out of the area, but in the past they have It has been said that the camps of Dunkirk and Calais are like small cities sustained by demand and demand. Charities that support them.
While it is unusual for five people to be systematically murdered in one day, these areas are by no means immune to violence. As has long been reported, the towns that host these transit camps have been plagued by murders and other daily violence for years. Shootings are generally migrant-on-migrant violence, but locals have been beaten, robbed, and in some cases legitimate port customers have been killed by migrants trying to infiltrate cross-Channel traffic. be. .
