The Rohan palace was the target this Thursday evening of an attempted fire, quickly brought under control by the firefighters. If the eyes quickly fell on participants in the wild demonstrations against the pension reform, the video shot by Rue89 Bordeaux raises the question of the responsibility of far-right activists.
Who could have tried to set fire to the town hall of Bordeaux? Asked when the firefighters extinguished the fire started on the door of the Palais Rohan, Pierre Hurmic, who left his office shortly before, declared “not to see the symbol” of such an attack against “the house of Bordeaux “.
Etienne Guyot, prefect of the Gironde, mentioned to him the “groups of activists” who turned in town after the demonstration and who stood “in ambush”. But the slogan heard on the video shot by Rue89 Bordeaux at the time of the fire is not precisely attributable to anarchists or the far left.
“Whose France is it? »
You can clearly hear someone shouting “Whose France is it?” and several people reply: “She is ours”. A signature of identity, while eight far-right activists are currently on trial for racist violence dating from June 2022 in the Saint-Michel district, and the first day of hearing had just ended in the court of Bordeaux, neighbor of the town hall.
According to our information, the anti-racist associations which demonstrated this Thursday morning in Bordeaux, at the opening of the trial, feared an intervention by supporters of Bordeaux Nationaliste, the small group dissolved by the Ministry of the Interior.
In addition, the mayor of Bordeaux has since been in the crosshairs of the extreme traditionalist right – he had received death threats at that time. He recently participated in several demonstrations of support for Family Planning and support associations for foreigners, targeted by racist tags in recent weeks.
An arrest after the fire
Questioned on the Place Pey-Berland shortly after the fire, Etienne Guyot, the prefect of the Gironde, indicated that a person had been arrested, without making any connection with the trial of the neo-Nazis.
The former mayor of Bordeaux, Nicolas Florian, for his part criticized the inaction of his successor, believing that “Bordeaux knows violence without Pierre Hurmic reacting”.
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