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Loon-Plage Camp Shooting Kills One, Wounds Five Migrants

Investigators are treating the incident as an organised gang crime after shell casings indicated the use of a shoulder-fired weapon

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Overview

  • The attack erupted around 10 a.m. on June 14 in the Loon-Plage migrant camp near Dunkerque, leaving one migrant dead and five injured.
  • Two of the wounded are in critical condition, including a two-year-old child airlifted to Lille for treatment.
  • Authorities have detained a man and a 17-year-old minor on suspicion of involvement in the shooting.
  • Twenty shell casings were recovered and prosecutors have opened organised gang murder, attempted murder and weapons-possession investigations.
  • Local aid group Salam estimates 1,500 to 2,000 migrants are in the Dunkerque area where 919 crossed the Channel on 14 boats most recently.