After the arrest on Tuesday, November 5 of several suspects, following the fire at the police station in the Pissevin district in Nîmes, two people including a 15-year-old minor, who admitted to being the author of the fire, must be presented to a magistrate.
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Two days after the arrests, Tuesday, November 5, of six people suspected of having participated in the fire at the police station in the Pissevin district, in Nîmes, four were released, two others including a 15-year-old minor must be released. presented to a judge this Thursday, November 7.
The police station, which was to be inaugurated on August 21, 2024, had been damaged by an arson perpetrated in an adjoining business the night before the opening.
Around 2:00 a.m., several explosions, followed by a fire, caused significant damage to the gallery in this sensitive district of Nîmes.
The newly built police office, whose inauguration was imminent, was then partly damaged by a fire that started from an adjoining business.
The investigation opened for damage by dangerous means in flagrante delicto, under the direction of the Nîmes public prosecutor's office, quickly made it possible to determine “that the disaster had been caused by a massive spillage of fuel via the chimney of a butcher's shop then under construction”, explained Cécile Gensac, the prosecutor, this Tuesday, November 5, in a press release.
Of the six people arrested at the start of the week, a 15-year-old minor admitted to setting the police station on fire. He will be presented to a children's judge. Information from our colleagues at France Bleu Gard Lozère, confirmed to France 3 Occitanie from a source close to the investigation. A 28-year-old man also suspected of having participated in this fire must also be referred. He will be tried this Friday in immediate appearance in Nîmes.
The two suspects are already known to the police for cases related to drug trafficking.
