Thursday morning, Jonathan Letellier could only see the damage in his business located in Colomiers, in the Toulouse suburbs. “Seven vehicles were destroyed, four of which were completely charred in the parking lot,” explains the director and manager of Cazenave Pièces Autos. A magnificent collector's Austin Mini, dating from 1989, was hit. All the tar is distorted. "
The fire started around 3 am. Surveillance camera images caught a suspect, his face masked by a hood, igniting. The rapid intervention of the firefighters made it possible to prevent the disaster from spreading to the building which houses the premises of this car breakage, where fuel removed from cars is stored before being recycled.
"It could have been a big disaster," says Jonathan Letellier. His company with 18 employees, which was able to open this Thursday, adjoins indeed other companies, where textiles and cardboard accumulate, necessarily very flammable. Police from the Western Territorial Brigade were responsible for the investigation.
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