The arrest of a suspect will not have dragged on.
Two days after the
"degradations"
committed in a vaccination center in eastern France, a 16-year-old boy was arrested in Audincourt (Doubs) Tuesday, July 20 in the evening, according to information from Europe 1 confirmed by
Le Figaro
.
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Sunday July 18, the vaccination center of La Filature, located in the city of Audincourt, was the victim of a major power failure.
"The center was deliberately vandalized: the electrical box and the emergency generator were damaged [...] with the intention of destroying the storage of vaccines"
, indignant the mayor of the town, Martial Bourquin, who filed a complaint.
These acts, qualified by the elected official as
"unacceptable and unspeakable"
, have multiplied across France in recent days.
During the night of Friday July 16 to Saturday July 17, the town hall of Lans-en-Vercors (Isère) which was to serve as a vaccination center was flooded, its walls tagged and its equipment ransacked.
The following night, the marquee hosting the vaccination center in the town of Urrugne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was set on fire.
The vaccine doses preserved
In Audincourt, the investigation was entrusted in joint referral to the judicial police as well as to the Montbéliard police station.
The police immediately went to the scene to carry out the first investigations.
The municipal police then remained on site under surveillance.
It was she who arrested, Tuesday evening around 9:30 pm, a 16-year-old teenager suspected of
"returning to the scene"
, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Placed in custody at the Montbéliard police station in the wake of his arrest, the young man, known to the police, must be heard this Wednesday morning.
In addition, the 3,000 doses of vaccine which had been withdrawn from the vaccine chain following the power cut were subjected to analyzes.
"The fridges having lost their operability for less than three hours, their inertia was sufficient"
to preserve these doses, underlines the same source. Contacted on this subject, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) Grand Est did not respond to the
Figaro's
requests
.
