Police station and businesses affected by a fire in Pissevin: the Nîmes prosecutor announces the arrest of six people

On the night of August 20 to 21, 2024, around 2 a.m., several explosions followed by a fire caused significant damage to the Marcel Sant gallery in the Pissevin district of Nîmes.

Much awaited, the new police station, just built, found its solidity affected by the consequences of this disaster which occurred in an adjoining business.

“Damage by dangerous means”

The open investigation of the head of “damage by dangerous means” in flagrante delicto, then preliminary, by the interdepartmental direction of the national police of Gard under the direction of the prosecution, then made it possible to quickly determine that this fire had been caused by a massive spreading of fuel via the chimney of a butcher's then under construction.

In a press release made public this Tuesday, November 5, the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac, indicates that:

“ Multiple investigations carried out over the last two months have led today to the arrest and placement in police custody of 6 people from Nîmes, 3 adults aged 20 to 28, and three minors aged 15, 16 and 17. . Their profile indicates that they are all known for acts related to narcotics. “.

The investigations must now make it possible to establish the potential role of each of those held in police custody in the facts and, where applicable, the conditions and motivations for the act. “It being specified that in the current state of the investigation, nothing establishes with certainty a link between the destruction by fire and drug trafficking”specifies the prosecutor.