Friday October 25, 2024, a little after 10 p.m., emergency services intervened for a fire in a residential house, at 33, rue du Docteur-Corson, not far from the Château des Salles, in Guingamp (Côtes-d’Armor). A house with five roommates.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the fire. But very quickly, in the evening, a 23-year-old man was arrested by the police and placed in police custody. “He told them, spontaneously, that he was responsible for the fire, having lit the duvet in his room with a lighter”reports Nicolas Heitz, public prosecutor.
Opening of a judicial investigation
The owner of the premises and three other tenants of the building filed a complaint. “One of them had a total incapacity for work of 45 days. » During his hearing, the man, a Senegalese student, “in a regular situation on the national territory” and not presenting “no criminal record”tells investigators “that he wanted to return to his country of origin, Senegal”. Committing a crime was, according to him, “a way”.
Indicted for the crime of destruction of another person’s property by dangerous means resulting in an ITT of more than eight days, he was referred to the Saint-Brieuc public prosecutor’s office this Sunday, October 27, with a view to the opening of ‘judicial information.
“The judicial information must make it possible to determine the precise course of events and to assess the dangerousness of the person indicted as well as their precise motives”continues Nicolas Heitz. In the meantime, the judge of freedoms and detention decided to place him in pre-trial detention.
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