Montreal: another pizzeria targeted by a suspicious fire

Montreal police want to elucidate another attempted fire at a pizzeria in the borough of LaSalle on Tuesday morning.

The authorities were called around 4:25 a.m. for the start of a fire in a business located on rue Thierry, near rue Turley in LaSalle.

The police dispatched to the scene noticed the presence of traces of accelerant, while a can of gasoline was in front of the business.

• Listen to the Crime and Society chronicle with Félix Séguin, journalist at the Quebecor Bureau of Investigation at the microphone of Richard Martineau via QUB-radio :

The damage to the building is very minor with just the facade blackened by the fire lit outside, but without spreading inside the building.

The suspects, who fled, had nevertheless prepared their blow well by placing two tires and an orange cone on the facade to fuel the flames.

• Listen to the news item chronicle of Maxime Deland, journalist at the QMI Agency, about this attempted fire, at the microphone of Benoit Dutrizac via QUB-radio :

Even if it has not yet been done, the investigation should be transferred to the arson section of the Montreal Police Department.