The spectacular images of this historic gate in flames had punctuated the ninth day of demonstrations against the pension reform, on March 23. Arrested on Thursday, the 17-year-old man was indicted for "degradation of public property by incendiary substance in meeting" and placed under judicial control, said Friday the Bordeaux prosecutor's office confirming information from Sud Ouest.
Four other men have been indicted for the same offences since the beginning of the investigation and two are being remanded in custody.
Impressive images
The massive wooden door of the city hall of Bordeaux had been set on fire on the evening of March 23, after a day of demonstration against the pension reform punctuated by excesses and a few days before the visit in France, including Bordeaux, of King Charles III of England, finally canceled the next day.
The fire occurred after the beginning of a "wild demonstration" at the end of the original union mobilization. The protesters had started a fire of barricades that spread on the porch of the building. The disaster, whose images had been widely reported on social networks and in the media, had lasted about fifteen minutes before being extinguished by firefighters.
At the beginning of April, the ecologist mayor Pierre Hurmic had announced the organization of an online vote for the inhabitants to choose between three repair scenarios: "redo identically" this work of the eighteenth century, "repair the burned door and keep it thus", in its burnt black appearance, or "install a resolutely contemporary door, which could be the subject of a competition" of artists.
