A 41-year-old man was indicted and imprisoned Thursday, September 3, suspected of having blown up an automatic teller machine (ATM) in a supermarket in Yvelines last week, slightly injuring seven people, according to the Versailles prosecutor's office.
The ATM was located at the entrance of a supermarket in the small town of Mézières-sur-Seine.
At least four people had been transferred to hospital with superficial burns, according to a police source.
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The store around had been partially gutted, debris having been thrown about twenty meters around.
The suspect, who fled empty-handed, was himself injured, in particular by shrapnel.
Explosive substances were also found at his home during the searches, according to the prosecution.
The forty-year-old had fled in a car he tried to set on fire and which was found partly charred by investigators in Louveciennes (Yvelines), reports Le Parisien.
DNA traces found inside made it possible to trace it back to him.
He was indicted for "
attempted theft with a weapon, destruction of property by an explosive substance resulting in an ITT not exceeding eight days and theft
" of a vehicle, said the prosecution.
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Versailles.
