He had seriously forced on the champagne… A 37-year-old man residing in Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines) was arrested on the night of Saturday to Sunday after degrading a restaurant and starting two fires along Avenue Buffon.
His nocturnal odyssey begins when he leaves the table, when he has just shared a dinner with his wife in a restaurant in the city of horses.
During the meal, he chained the glasses of champagne.
At the time of leaving, for some unknown reason, he gets angry in the middle of the room and leaves the establishment very upset.
A few minutes later, he turns around and kicks the glass front, which shatters.
Arrived at home, around 3 am, the wife telephones the police to explain that her husband has drunk too much, that he has become aggressive and has degraded a business.
He flees with rubbing alcohol
While the patrol has just started, the firefighters also receive a call: a fire has just broken out in front of the couple's pavilion, avenue Buffon.
When the police arrive on the spot, they discover another start of fire, under the windows of a neighboring house.
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A little further on, a man is running away, a bottle of rubbing alcohol in his hand.
Additional patrols are called in as reinforcements to track down the arsonist.
The man was finally arrested a few minutes later.
Completely drunk, he had taken refuge in his garage.
The police found him in a choice hiding place: he was perched… on a shelf.
Prosecuted for "willful damage to private property", the arsonist was still in custody at the Houilles police station this Sunday afternoon.
Known to the police for acts of violence and threats twenty years ago, he had not been talked about since.
