The 22-year-old suspect was taken into custody on Saturday after surrendering at a police station in Ghyvelde simply exterior the Channel port metropolis of Dunkirk round 5:20 pm (1620 GMT) on Saturday afternoon — two hours after the primary killing.
He’s “unknown to the police service and judicial authorities,” Dunkirk’s chief prosecutor Charlotte Huet mentioned in a press release.
A cost of homicide mixed with different crimes and possession of restricted firearms – a number of of which had been discovered within the suspect’s automotive – carries a most sentence of life in jail.
“Many inquiries are underway,” prosecutor Huet mentioned, particularly “to make clear the explanations that led the suspect to commit these crimes”.
A supply accustomed to the case mentioned police are investigating whether or not the person had knowledgeable falling-out with the businesses the place the primary three victims labored.
All 5 murders had been dedicated inside lower than two hours within the Dunkirk space.
Within the first incident, a 29-year-old man was killed with a number of gunshots exterior his home in Wormhout, a village simply south of the town, prosecutors mentioned.
The native city corridor hailed the person as a neighborhood enterprise proprietor and younger father who ran a trucking firm using round 30 folks.
