A 30-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning, confirms the Bobigny prosecutor's office (Seine-Saint-Denis).
This is the second suspect placed in police custody in the premises of the departmental service of the judicial police in the space of three days.
Little is known about his profile, It would be a homeless person, but it would not necessarily be the individual who sprayed flammable liquid and partially burned a woman in a bus on Saturday night in Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Burns in the face, scalp and neck
Another man who had been suspected shortly after the facts and placed in police custody on Sunday was released, indicates for his part the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
The 54-year-old victim suffered burns to his face, scalp and neck, but his life is not in danger.
The perpetrator fled on Saturday shortly after 7:00 p.m.
The victim's companion immediately rescued him, helped by the bus driver who extinguished the fire with a fire extinguisher, relates a police source.
Both were slightly injured.
The investigation for attempted voluntary homicide was entrusted to the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Sunday, investigators said to favor the track of an imbalance.