{"id":39490,"date":"2024-12-15T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-police-detain-man-and-seize-firearms-after-5-people-shot-dead-near-dunkirk\/15\/12\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:14:22","slug":"french-police-detain-man-and-seize-firearms-after-5-people-shot-dead-near-dunkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-police-detain-man-and-seize-firearms-after-5-people-shot-dead-near-dunkirk\/15\/12\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"French police detain man and seize firearms after 5 people shot dead near Dunkirk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">DUNKIRK, France (AP) \u2014 French police are investigating the deaths of five people who were fatally shot in the Dunkirk area, in northern France, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">A 22-year-old man later turned himself in to police, according to authorities and local media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">An unnamed company owner in Wormhout, located south of Dunkirk, was killed first, followed by two private security agents and two migrants in Loon-Plage, located just west of Dunkirk, according to the Interior Ministry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-body md:hidden\">\n<div class=\"mx-auto mb-5 flex flex-col overflow-hidden rounded-xl pb-5 shadow-[0_0_1px_rgba(200,160,251,.63),0_2px_6px_1px_#F3E6FE]\">\n<h4 class=\"m-auto block px-4 pb-4 pt-2 text-lg font-bold leading-6\">Trusted news and daily delights, right in your inbox<\/h4>\n<p class=\"m-auto px-4 pb-4 text-sm font-normal\">See for yourself \u2014 The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Dunkirk&#8217;s prosecutor said the suspect gave himself up to the gendarmerie brigade in Ghyvelde, east of Dunkirk, at about 5:20 p.m. and said he had killed five people. The man, who was unknown to authorities, was taken into police custody, according to the prosecutor, who said several firearms were found in the man&#8217;s car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Officials are trying to determine the suspect\u2019s motive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0\">Such shootings are particularly rare in France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/french-police-detain-man-seize-164414968.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUNKIRK, France (AP) &mdash; French police are investigating the deaths of five people who were fatally shot in the Dunkirk area, in<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/french-police-detain-man-and-seize-firearms-after-5-people-shot-dead-near-dunkirk\/15\/12\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}