Police investigating whether suspect had workplace dispute with firms where three of victims worked
Photograph: Bernard Barron/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Bernard Barron/AFP/Getty ImagesFrench police are still trying to establish the motive for five murders that were committed in the space of less than two hours near the northern port city of Dunkirk on Saturday afternoon.
In a statement, Dunkirk’s chief prosecutor, Charlotte Huet, said the man was “unknown to the police service and judicial authorities”. She added that multiple inquiries were under way “to clarify the reasons that led the suspect to commit these crimes”. Prosecutors have provided a chronology of the killings, saying the first victim was a 29-year-old man who died after being shot several times outside his house in Wormhout, a village south of Dunkirk, shortly after 3pm on Saturday.At about 4pm, two security guards, aged 33 and 37, were killed as they patrolled an industrial zone adjacent to the port in Loon-Plage, west of Dunkirk. Tributes were posted on Facebook to the two men, who were known locally for working as bouncers at carnival events.
“We don’t understand at all why two migrants were targeted,” said Salomé Bahri, of the Utopia 56 aid group.
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