Five criminal fires raged overnight Wednesday to Thursday in a residential sector in Repentigny. A suspect was quickly apprehended and arrested by the police service in the city of Repentigny.
Around 1 a.m., firefighters and police received a call to report two fires launched in cedar hedges in the quadrilateral of the Fournier, Fabre, Ferron and Frontenac streets in Repentigny.
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Bruno Marier, spokesperson for the city of the city of Repentigny
Photo : Radio-Canada
At that time, we had no description of suspects
explains Bruno Marier, spokesperson for the police service in the city of Repentigny.
While the firefighters were busy putting out these fires, a witness would have mentioned the police to have seen an individual dressed in black on Fabre Street, with a torch in hand, which was lighting a hedge of cedars in the same sector
.
This third fire managed to spread and reach a shed as well as garden furniture in the backyard of a house. When the police began to rake the premises looking for information, the latter received a third call in connection with a fourth fire on Fournier Street.
At this location, the police service had to wake up and evacuate a family, whose members were sleeping in the house, which suffered some damage.
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The five fires took place in the same residential sector in Repentigny.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Alain Béland
The police were not at the end of their sorrows since they were called for a fifth fire in a car shelter adjacent to a house. A boat stored there was plagued by flames when they arrived. The house was unoccupied and there was no injuries.
A 16 -year -old teenager was arrested shortly after by the police service in the city of Repentigny.
He had a campsite torch and a propane cylinder
With him at the time of his arrest. He was taken to the police station, where he was questioned.
We do not know his motivations for the time being.
With the information of Karine Bastien
