Two migrants were "slightly" wounded by gunshot wounds in Grande-Synthe (North) on Wednesday evening, near an exile camp.
The firefighters were called in at 7.45 p.m. for "personal assistance" at an Auchan store.
The circumstances of these shots are still at this stage very mysterious.
It is in this area that there is a camp for migrants eager to reach England, a camp which had been dismantled by the gendarmes on October 21.
“As the responders heard some detonations, the police advised the firefighters to protect themselves.
At around 8:15 pm, they finally transported two slightly injured people to the Dunkirk hospital center, ”he continued.
According to France Bleu, they would have been shot in the legs and face.
Grande-Synthe migrants: 2 injured after gunfire.
On Wednesday, around 7:30 p.m., shots were fired near the Dk'Bus exchange hub, in front of the drying plant, which had become a migrant camp.
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The North Prefecture confirmed that relief had been "requested for two gunshot wounds, with no life threatening prognosis", without further details. "A judicial investigation is underway," she added. Contacted by AFP, the public prosecutor of Dunkirk was not reachable. According to France 3, it would be a settling of scores would have broken out between smugglers and several exiles and shots were fired, without knowing the weapon used for the time being.
According to a source close to the investigation, they are two migrants, "a priori of Iraqi nationality", Kurds, according to France 3. A police source specified that these injuries followed a "turf war".
According to her, one "took three bullets, the other one".
In the process, the police intervened in the camp.
The tents have been searched.
A person was taken away by the police to be heard, according to associations.
