A man close to the “ultra-left” movement was arrested last weekend and placed in pre-trial detention, accused of having set fire to around sixty vehicles since 2017 which belonged in particular to public companies or telephone operators.
A man close to the “ultra-left” movement was arrested last weekend and placed in pre-trial detention, accused of having set fire to around sixty vehicles since 2017 which belonged in particular to public companies or telephone operators, learned AFP from a source familiar with the matter. This forty-year-old man was arrested by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (SDAT) of the judicial police in the Oise where he lived, after having set fire to a BMW and a vehicle on the night of June 10 to 11. diplomacy in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, said this source.
A suspect already known to the police
The burned vehicles, mostly in Ile-de-France, belonged to public companies such as Enedis or Eiffage, as well as telephone operators, added the source. “More than 100 vehicles were destroyed in total” and “ten building facades burned” by the spread of the fires, she detailed.
The suspect had been the subject for “several months” of an investigation opened by the Bobigny prosecution and entrusted to the (SDAT), said the source. He was also the administrator of a website in which he “claimed and incited to perpetrate this kind of misdeeds”, added this source. He was “broken in the techniques of clandestinity” and “did not say anything in the hearing”, she said again. He was “very suspicious”, he “knew the video surveillance system of the city of Paris well, for example” and “used routes not covered” by the cameras.