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Two men suspected of having set fire to a police vehicle parked in front of a police station in Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin, and placed in police custody on Friday were exonerated and released this Saturday, we learned from a judicial source .

The track of retaliation for a case of refusal to comply with a man who had run into a police officer, initially considered, according to a police union source, "has not been confirmed", it was specified. from the same source, stressing that "the investigation was continuing".

Molotov cocktail

The facts occurred on Friday around 4 p.m. in the Mulhouse district of Coteaux.

Two men broke a window of a police-screened vehicle and set it ablaze by dropping a Molotov cocktail into the empty cabin, police and union sources said.

The open investigation had led the police to apprehend two men as early as Friday evening, who are ultimately "not linked to this act" and "are exonerated", a judicial source said.

A video of the fire, mostly smoke in the distance, was still visible this Saturday afternoon on social media.

On Twitter, the prefect of Haut-Rhin Louis Laugier "strongly condemned this scandalous act" and brought "all (his) support to the police".

Louis Laugier, prefect of #HautRhin: "I fully support the #Mulhouse police force, a vehicle of which was set on fire today! I strongly condemn this scandalous act."

- Prefect of Haut-Rhin (@ Prefet68) February 26, 2021

In a statement, the Alliance Police Nationale Grand Est union denounced "the impunity of certain thugs who no longer hesitate for a single second to come and challenge the police with a weapon classified by law as being" war material ".

The union called for "unwavering support from the judiciary which must provide a firm criminal response to such acts".

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