An investigation was opened after the fire of two vehicles claimed on an anarchist blog which says to have targeted the car of the deputy LREM of Doubs Eric Alauzet but missed its target, learned AFP Sunday from concordant sources. Allies and political opponents of the elected official, who is also a municipal candidate in Besançon, immediately denounced an “act of intimidation” .
The facts, committed on the night of Friday to Saturday, were explicitly claimed Saturday in a text published on an anarchist blog called "Attack", which says to have "set fire" to the car of the deputy. Two vehicles were burned in a parking lot where Mr. Alauzet "used to park his car" , but the latter was not damaged, said the Besançon prosecution.
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An investigation for "damage by fire" was entrusted to the Besançon judicial police who will "dig" the trail of this anarchist blog, "without closing other doors," it was added.
"We paid a little visit (...) where the home and the doctor's office of the deputy Eric Alauzet are located". "After having successfully entered the parking lot of the condominium, we set fire to his personal car , " said a statement released on Saturday on "Attack," seeming to ignore that the act missed its target.
"I do not know if they were wrong or they did not care: they wanted to intimidate," said France Bleu Besançon M. Alauzet, who was not reachable immediately. "I am revolted (...) it is a very serious episode after a whole sequence of a year where I suffered insults" and "intimidation" , he also told France 3 Bourgogne-Franche- County.
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The deputy came third at the end of the first round of the municipal elections (18% of the votes), behind the ecologist Anne Vignot (30%) and the LR Ludovic Fagaut (25%).
The Doubs prefect, Joël Mathurin, also denounced this "arson" as well as "his claim". "An enhanced vigilance instruction concerning all parliamentarians" was given to the Doubs security forces, he added in a press release.