Repeated fires of telephone relays in Isère

A mobile phone relay was damaged by fire in the night from Thursday to Friday in Saint-Marcellin (Isère), we learned from the Grenoble prosecutor's office which evokes repeated facts in the department. “ This is the third such event in a month. There was the degradation of the SFR relay at Chatte on March 29, then the degradation of the Estrablin relay antenna on April 13, ”explains the public prosecutor, Eric Vaillant.

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According to the regional daily Le Dauphiné Libéré , the fire damaged the technical room of a relay antenna of the operator Orange installed on the heights of Saint-Marcellin. An investigation was opened, entrusted to the Saint-Marcellin research brigade and to the research section of the Isère gendarmerie.

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Le Dauphiné Libéré reports the broadcast Thursday evening, on an internet platform close to libertarian circles having claimed responsibility for a series of fires in recent years in Isère, of a document explaining " how to destroy a relay antenna ". " At this stage of the investigation and in the absence of claims, it is difficult to say whether these facts are attributable to the libertarian ultra-left or to conspiracy movements as it has appeared recently in the United Kingdom ", Emphasizes the prosecutor.

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Over the Channel, relay antennas were attacked in April following the spread on the internet of rumors linking 5G to the spread of the new coronavirus. In France, relay antennas have already been targeted in recent days near Saint-Brieuc in Brittany and in the Jura, according to local press. Others had been, in the Var and in Carcassonne in particular, at the end of last year.