Dunkirk: shooting and chase on the A16 – The Point

A triple pileup occurred on the A16, leaving one dead and several injured, including four seriously, early on Thursday, shortly before the release of Dunkirk, as reported by La Voix du Nord. Traffic was cut off in both directions as a result of this collision involving six vehicles and a heavy weight. Having chased an Audi registered in Britain, the Belgian police opened fire and hit by ball, at least two of the four occupants of the car, which was traveling at over 200 km / h.

the alleged smugglers fled a traffic stop

In fleeing, the vehicle crashed into other cars traveling on this busy road. The Belgian authorities suspect the fugitives to be smugglers. At least two of them have been shot and transported by helicopter to hospital in Lille. The first accident occurred at 5 am 40, then to 6 hours occurred “a clearly related accident on the pursuit by Belgian police” of a car having crossed the border, making therein four injured including two seriously, said a prefecture spokesman told Agence France-Presse. In a third accident, “about ten kilometers” away, a motorcyclist crashed into a truck and died, according to the prefecture. The A16 was closed in both directions for several hours and reopened in the France-Belgium shortly before 8 am 30.

The driver and passengers of the car were foreigners, according to Iraqi nationality La Voix du Nord. In a second car, which was not that of the Belgian police, a person has suffered a fracture of the femur, while the three other passengers were simply shocked. The chase between a car and the Belgian police on Thursday morning on the A16 Paris-Ostend is part of “a typical configuration smuggling” of migrants, the prosecutor of Dunkirk said. “Conventionally, there is a configuration of smugglers,” argued the prosecutor. The four occupants of the car fled continued control in Belgium on parking notoriously frequented by smugglers, where they had “tried to raise people into trucks,” he added. These are the drivers of trucks who reported them to the police, in Belgian territory, he said. The suspects fled on the arrival of the police. One of them, after hearing the facts, “introduced himself as Iraqi.” The prosecutor, however, stressed that their smugglers profile was not established with certainty at this stage of the investigation.