Le Figaro Bordeaux
They are accused of having participated in the terrible fire at the door of the Rohan Palace, a listed historic monument housing the Mary of Bordeaux, on March 23 on the sidelines of a demonstration against pension reform.
Five defendants, aged 20 to 42, will be tried at the Bordeaux judicial court on Monday.
Two of them had previously been placed in pre-trial detention.
They will have to answer for the charges of “participation in a group formed with a view to preparing violence against people or damage to property” and/or “deterioration of the property of others by dangerous means”.
A final charge punishable by ten years in prison.
On the evening of the incident, around fifty hooded individuals stormed onto Place Pey-Berland before piling up trash cans, pallets and scooters to set the place on fire.
In Bordeaux, the series of demonstrations against the pension reform was marked by the ransacking of the University of Bordeaux, headquarters of the demonstrators, and the invitation to give a conference addressed by the blockers of the establishment to Jean-Marc Rouillan , a far-left activist convicted of glorifying terrorism in 2016 and imprisoned for two terrorist assassinations in 1985 and 1986.