Shot near Dunkerque: Suspect arrested in Belgium

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The man who is suspected killing his ex-girlfriend and parents in their car in Grande-Synthe near Dunkerque (Nord) on Monday afternoon was arrested at his home in Belgium, said the lawyer.

Killed three people, originating in Grande-Synthe, a man, 72 years old, his wife, 68 years old, and 40-year-old girl sitting in the back of the car.

The suspect, forty French, a former friend of the girl, with whom he lived in Belgium.

He was arrested "in house", said the AFP Belgian Eric FOUARD police, the prosecutor in Dunkirk, with no indication of where the suspect is.

He was "obviously trying to commit suicide by, and was taken to hospital drugs," Well, hearing this, said the judge, "the official application of the European arrest warrant."

Researchers on the trail of a man who registered in his car, Ford Fiesta in Belgium, was seen by many witnesses from the scene of the shooting.

It happened at 05.30 clock in the car park in the center of Market Square, one of the most popular communities.

The father, who was driving, and her daughter, died shortly after the incident. Wife, the passenger, was taken to a hospital in serious condition and the prognosis is committed to Dunkirk, where he died in the afternoon.

According to preliminary investigations, the author apparently shot first two women. The driver got the jack in the trunk of your car, perhaps to protect himself, before he killed for his part, said deputy district attorney in Dunkirk, Jacques Bresson.

Alerted by the shooting, ran and tried to follow the car handle youth neighborhoods, he continued.

"Many witnesses seen very closely at the scene," he told AFP Mary (PS) from Grande-Synthe, Damien Lent, who said he was "speechless for the event."

In the early evening, the scene of a large square building surrounded by bars, was cordoned off by the police and many spectators were kept behind barriers photographers, video AFP.

The body of his father on the floor, with a white cloth, a cat covered by his side. Victims of a car, a green Peugeot 407, windows had taken, open the trunk and the left rear door. Bag and a white towel in the middle of the vehicle, as well as downwards.

The police investigation was entrusted to Lille.