A sixty-year-old school principal is among the six people presented by the prosecution as "
belonging to the ultra-left
" arrested Tuesday, June 15 in Creuse and Haute-Vienne in connection with the arson of a TDF relay antenna, a learned on Wednesday June 16 an AFP correspondent with relatives and residents.
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In addition to this woman arrested by the anti-terrorism sub-directorate of the national police in Gentioux-Pigerolles (Creuse), three women and two men were simultaneously apprehended in Cieux and Bussière-Boffy, in Haute-Vienne. They were taken into custody as part of a judicial investigation linking the arson in January of a relay antenna in Cars (Haute-Vienne), which had deprived more than a million people of FM radio. and TNT, and the arson of several vehicles in the Enedis enclosure in Limoges in February 2020.
These suspects are suspected of "
destruction and degradation by dangerous means in an organized gang, association of criminals and destruction of property likely to harm the interests of the nation
", according to the prosecution.
In Gentioux-Pigerolles, a member of the municipal team said he was "
shocked
" and "
in the dark
" after the arrest of the school manager: "
she had been the principal for years and we were getting ready to celebrate his retirement.
We have never had a single problem with it
”.
"
Give us back our teacher
"
On the facade of the school, a message was written in red letters: "
My mistress radicalized me, fuck the Sdat (under anti-terrorist leadership), fuck the 17th (the police, editor's note)
". In Limoges, nearly 70 people gathered in front of the police station on Wednesday to protest against these arrests. Large banners were displayed, one of which was covered with children's drawings accompanied by the words “
Give us back our teacher
”. "
She would have committed acts of sabotage, of terrorism?" Here, it makes everyone scream with laughter!
», Underlines Jean-Paul, companion«
for 30 years
»of the teacher.
“
She is a very good teacher, rigorous, calm and patient with the children. When I was called to tell me the news, I fell off the truck,
”explains Véronique, 61, who“
led math workshops
”at the school. According to her, these arrests are used to "
create the buzz before the elections
": "
This allows (the rulers) to say: look, we have already caught people from the ultra-right and today, we are arresting people from the ultra-left. Look how wonderful this ultra center is!
".
For some demonstrators, it is the repetition of the Tarnac affair. In this village located like Gentioux-Pigerolles on the Millevaches plateau, presumed members of the “
anarcho-autonomous movement
” were arrested in 2008 for sabotaging SNCF lines but they were released ten years later. "
Who is terrorizing who?" 2008 Tarnac, 2021 Gentioux
”, they wrote on a banner stretched out in front of the police station.
