DOVER. On Wednesday July 20, 2022, a man was shot dead by the GIGN in Dover, Ain. He killed five people from the same family, including three minors.
[Mise à jour le 20 juillet 2022 à 19h36] On Wednesday July 20, 2022, a 22-year-old man shot dead five members of the same family, in Dover, Ain. The suspect was armed with a Japanese sword, according to a information from BFM TV, as well as a firearm. The young man had taken refuge on Tuesday evening in the house of a blended family, before killing the couple and their three children, aged 5, 15 and 17. The man, who was shot by the GIGN, was the son from a first union of the father of the family and did not live with them. The victims had been living in Dover since July 2021.
Five people killed in Dover
Tuesday July 19, in the early evening, a man took refuge in a house in the town of Douvres, in Ain, 60km northeast of Lyon. He then took hostage at least five other people who were also present in the home. It was only around 11:30 p.m. that the gendarmes were dispatched to the scene. According to information from TF1infoit is another member of the family who managed to extricate himself from the home and go to warn the police.
The hostage-taking lasted all night, as well as all morning. The GIGN was then sent to the site at the start of the day, around 7 a.m. according to information collected by Le Figaro, while shots were heard during the morning, according to witnesses quoted by local newspapers. After trying to conduct negotiations – in vain – the GIGN then stormed at midday, killing the last living member present in the home, the alleged perpetrator. When they entered the house, the members of the GIGN would have discovered a man locked in the bathroom with a katana, a Japanese sword.
Who are the five people killed?
If, for the time being, the prosecution has not commented on the case, several media, including franceinfo, indicate that the five people killed are all from the same family. They are a couple and three children: two girls aged 17 and 15, and a young boy aged 5. The family had lived in the town of Dover for a year.
Who is the hostage taker killed?
The elements collected by the media, confirmed by the mayor of Dover, made it possible to identify the hostage taker who was killed by the GIGN. He is a young man of 22, son of the father who was killed. The companion of the latter, also killed, was not the mother of the madman, who was born from a previous union.