The events took place in Ajaccio, on the night of August 30 to 31, 2019. A man on a motorbike broke a glass door in Jenifer's restaurant, In Calata, to try to set it on fire. According to information relayed at the time by France 3 Corsica and brought up to date by our colleagues from Pure people, the individual in question would have used a gas bottle and a jerry can containing accelerating product to start the fire. The scene had been captured by video surveillance. According to Corsica Morning, the prosecutor of the time, Éric Bouillard had declared whereas it was not according to him "no coincidence that several establishments start to burn in the middle of the night. We have had several such facts, with the same modus operandi. All of this may make sense ".
Man not unknown to police
After an investigation that lasted almost a year, the authorities finally got their hands on a suspect. The man, in his twenties, was first heard by the Ajaccio judicial police before being charged and imprisoned in U Borgu prison, Thursday, May 28, 2020. It was then "presented to the investigating magistrate before the liberty and detention judge validates his imprisonment", a judicial source confirmed to the newspaper. Luc Ruiu is not unknown to the police. Two years earlier, in 2017, he had been indicted for "degradations by a dangerous means, after shots of molotov cocktails on the police station, on the sidelines of a rally and following arrests". The past few years have not been easy for the winner of the first Star Academy. In 2017, she was involved in a road accident that claimed the lives of two people. A few months later, his uncle, Jean-Luc Codaccioni, on file for organized crime, was murdered in a settling of scores at Bastia airport.
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