At least seven fires would have been caused in less than a month by a dissatisfied fifty-something from the 11th arrondissement of the capital.
We call him “the arsonist of the 11th“. Placed in police custody Thursday for “willful damage to private property by incendiary substance” and “willful violence with total incapacity for work of less than eight days”, a 52-year-old man is suspected of having triggered in less than a month nearly seven fires in the 11th arrondissement of Paris for “clean up the neighborhoodยป, Reports The Parisian . The individual had notably set fire to the tent of a 36-year-old homeless man in early April who had managed to escape in extremis to the flames.
Known for neighborhood problems
If the individual attacked the homeless tents, he also sometimes reduced cars, scooters and scooters to smoke. Acting mainly at night, he was finally able to be identified by the police thanks to CCTV images, on which we can see a man with a certain limp and a bald head.
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The investigation confirmed these elements and determined the home of the arsonist, known for neighborhood problems. According to information from Parisianthe fifties would have recognized a large part of the facts.
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