Earlier this week, they extracted a 40-year-old man from his cell at the Gradignan penitentiary center. He is serving a ten-month prison sentence there for participation in an armed crowd, degradation and violence, recently pronounced by the Bordeaux Criminal Court in the context of the excesses that occurred on the sidelines of the demonstrations.
But what interests the investigators is his possible participation in the fire at the town hall door. “That evening, around 8:10 p.m., following a demonstration against the pension reform, several dozen individuals gathered in front of the Bordeaux city hall at Place Pey- Berland “, they recalled in a call for witnesses launched on Tuesday, April 25.
Seven indicted
“Some of them then piled up garbage cans, pallets and various objects of all kinds in front of the main entrance, then set them on fire, which quickly spread to the wooden door of the Palais Rohan, a listed historic monument, causing havoc. significant damage. “According to one of the tracks followed by their meticulous investigations, the forties placed in police custody in their premises could be one of them.
