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, the fire was started deliberately on a scooter, very close 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.
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.
Man arrested after another fire nearby
Disturbingly, during the same night, around 3:30 a.m., another car was set on fire not far from there, rue Camille-Pelletan, still in Bellevue. The police station confirms that a suspect, present at the scene of this second incident, was arrested. This Wednesday, he was still in police custody in the police station.
