The images are both extremely violent and spectacular.
Two men were in police custody on Saturday morning, suspected of having deposited an incendiary device on Friday afternoon in a police car parked in front of a police station in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), we learned from a judicial source.
The facts occurred Friday around 4 pm in the Mulhouse district of Coteaux.
Two men broke a window of a police-screened vehicle and set it ablaze by dropping a Molotov cocktail into the empty cabin, police and union sources said.
Mulhouse: two men suspected of having torched a police vehicle were taken into custody pic.twitter.com/R1UZ6eiwZ8
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) February 27, 2021
The motivation for this act, which did not cause any injuries, was known to the police, according to a source close to the file.
A video shot by its authors began to circulate in the evening on social networks.
The investigation opened at the police station made it possible to apprehend two men on Friday evening, whose motivations were not specified by the judicial source.
Condemnation of "this scandalous act"
On Twitter, the prefect of Haut-Rhin Louis Laugier "strongly condemned this scandalous act" and brought "all (his) support to the police".
In a press release, the Alliance Police Nationale Grand-Est union denounced "the impunity of certain thugs who no longer hesitate for a single second to come and challenge the police with a weapon classified by law as being a
material of war
".
The union called for "unwavering support from the judicial institution which must provide a firm criminal response to such acts".
The Police Commissioner's union also reacted strongly on the social network.
Criminals who will stop at nothing, to intimidate the #police officers!
Thugs burned a police car, in front of the police station of the city of hills, in #Mulhouse.
They want to scare us away.
We will not give up, for these inhabitants who are fed up!
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- SICP Police Commissioners (@SICPCommissar) February 26, 2021
