During the night of Tuesday 11 to Wednesday 12 January, arson targeted a restaurant-bar in Bastia and three trucks parked in front of the forest-sapper building in Serra-di-Fiumorbo (Haute-Corse), AFP told AFP on Wednesday. the Bastia prosecutor.
Read also Throwing Molotov cocktails at a Corsican sub-prefecture: three men indicted
"
Elements strongly suggest a criminal track
" for the fire which affected the establishment "
Le son des guitares
" in the port of Toga, Bastia, said Arnaud Viornery, prosecutor of the Republic of Bastia.
The judicial police were seized of an investigation opened for deliberate destruction by fire, he added.
In total, 100 square meters of terrace went up in smoke around 3:50 am.
"There is an intentional ending"
Another arson attacked around 11:25 p.m. several trucks belonging to the municipality of Serra-di-Fiumorbo (Haute-Corse) and the Collectivité de Corse while they were parked in front of the building of the forest-sappers of the municipality. The president of the executive of the Collectivity of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni, denounced on Twitter "
the arson against a technical center of the Collectivity of Corsica in Serra-di-Fiumorbo
" which "
destroyed a vehicle of the municipality and two of the Collectivity
”, qualifying these acts of“
shameful misdeeds
”.
"
There is an intentional end since we found accelerating products and elements that establish the criminal origin of the fire
", told AFP Arnaud Viornery, specifying that three public vehicles had been affected "
including two trucks capable of being transformed into snowplows
”.
“
Hearings of the victims are underway to find out who owned the trucks and what was their employment
,” said the prosecutor.
The investigation for deliberate destruction by fire was entrusted to the Ghisonaccia gendarmerie and the search brigade, according to the magistrate.
