A former security guard who ‘had a grudge against migrants’ is in custody after five men were shot dead near migrant camp in Dunkirk. The 22-year-old French national, identified as Paul D., admitted murdering five people after two UK-bound migrants, two port security guards and a fifth man were shot dead on Saturday afternoon, police said.
Image Credit: Metro [Police cordon off a migrant camp on a road between Mardyck and Loon Beach where two security guards and two migrants were shot dead, near Dunkirk, northern France, on December 14, 2024. Five people were killed on December 14, 2024 in northern France, according to the French Gendarmerie, to which a person surrendered to the authorities at the end of the day, indicating that he was the author of the murders. The first four victims killed near Dunkirk and would be two security agents and two migrants, according to the first elements reported by this source. The fifth person killed was in the commune of Wormhout. (Photo by Bernard BARRON / AFP) (Photo by BERNARD BARRON/AFP via Getty Images)]
All five murders were committed within less than two hours in the Dunkirk area. Transport company chief Paul Dekeister, 29, died after being shot in front of his wife and other family members at the nearby town of Wormhout yesterday. At around 4pm, two security guards, named locally as Marc, a father of two, aged 33, and Aurélien, who was 37, were killed as they patrolled an industrial zone adjacent to the port in Loon-Plage, just west of Dunkirk.
Image Credit: Metro [Investigators arrive at a Gendarmerie Police station as French Gendarmes stand next to a vehicle (R) alledged to be that of the alledged killer, who reportedly turned himself in at the police station, in Ghyvelde, northern France, on December 14, 2024. Five people were killed on December 14, 2024 in northern France, according to the French Gendarmerie, to which a person surrendered to the authorities at the end of the day, indicating that he was the author of the murders. The first four victims killed near Dunkirk and would be two security agents and two migrants, according to the first elements reported by this source. The fifth person killed was in the commune of Wormhout. (Photo by Bernard BARRON / AFP) (Photo by BERNARD BARRON/AFP via Getty Images)]
An investigating source said: ‘The killer arrived at the Dekeister’s farmhouse at around 3pm on Saturday and killed Mr Dekeister infront of his family. ‘Mr Dekeister had employed the suspect in a security capacity, and was involved in a dispute. ‘After the killing, the suspect got into his car and made his way to the area around the migrant camp at Loon-Plage.
‘It is thought that he had a grudge against the migrants living along the coast, and wanted to settle some scores.’. Two migrants, who have been identified locally as Hamid and Hadi, were then killed minutes later in Loon-Plage. Hamid and Hadi had just returned to France after a failed attempt to the English Channel and reach Britain.
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