Four hooded individuals entered the brand before spraying the soil of a flammable liquid and setting fire to it. The store had already been the victim of a similar attack last January.
A new trade attack against a background of intimidation in Marseille. Thursday April 10 in the morning, a halal butcher’s shop of 15e Arrondissement was the target of a lightning criminal fire while the brand was preparing to open its doors.
As reported to Figaro police sources, which confirm information from Provencefour hooded individuals entered the butcher’s shop by threatening the staff with a handgun. The criminals then spread a flammable liquid on the ground before setting fire to it and fleeing aboard a vehicle. According to our information, he was found burnt down in the northern districts of Marseille in stride.
Racket attempt
The flames were contained by the manager of the premises and its staff. The facts led to the opening of an initial investigation for “Voluntary degradation of private property by incendiary means in organized gang”, According to a source. The sensitive investigations were entrusted to the interdepartmental judicial police service of the Bouches-du-Rhône (SIPJ 13), since it is not the first time that the establishment has been the victim of a criminal fire.
On January 17, the brand had also been degraded by the same operating mode: two individuals with a handgun had poured a jerrican full of petrol on the ground of the butcher’s shop, which had then caught fire. The Brigade of repression of banditry (BRB) had been seized of the already disturbing case, a butcher’s shop in the sector that caught fire in identical conditions 24 hours before. What accredit the hypothesis of a racketeering attempt.
