It was around 2 a.m., on the night of Tuesday June 18 to Wednesday June 19, 2024, when the residents of rue du Havre, in the Bellevue district, in Brest, were awakened by an explosion. According to initial information, everything indicates that the fire was started deliberately on a scooter, which had been stuck to a vehicle parked along the street. “By the time I realized what had happened, the firefighters were already there. It was certainly another resident who called them,” said this Wednesday the owner of the Audi Q3, the engine part of which was completely burned.
A stolen scooter?
Without the rapid intervention of the firefighters, the car would undoubtedly have been completely burned, but it is in any case unusable. “It’s my wife’s vehicle, who uses it to get to her work in Guipavas. We’ll check with the insurance. We’ve lived here for thirty years, it’s usually a quiet street,” confides the owner of the vehicle, expressing “disgust and incomprehension.” Note that the front door of the couple’s house was also warped due to the heat. A police investigation is underway to try to trace the arsonist of the scooter, a two-wheeler which could have been stolen.
