• On April 29, a nursery school was partially destroyed in an arson in Lille.

  • The investigation identified two suspects who were indicted, one of whom was remanded in custody.

  • The Lille public prosecutor's office confirms the involvement of other people in the fire and in the violence suffered by the firefighters during their intervention.

Thursday, the two young men arrested as part of the investigation opened after the fire in a kindergarten in Lille were indicted by an examining magistrate, we learned from the Lille prosecutor's office.

Police investigations made it possible, on Tuesday, to arrest two people suspected of having participated in the fire at the Hachette school, in the popular Faubourg de Béthune district, in Lille.

Placed in custody, the individuals, a young adult and a 13-year-old minor, were brought to the prosecution on Thursday, then presented to an examining magistrate to be indicted "as accomplices".

The adult was placed in pre-trial detention and the minor was placed under judicial supervision in a reinforced educational center.

"Several fires caused by hydrocarbons"

The investigations carried out within the framework of the open judicial investigation of the count of “destruction of public property by a dangerous means by an organized gang” quickly established that the fire was of criminal origin. It was indeed noted "several starts of fire caused by hydrocarbons, thus confirming the hypothesis of an arson", explains the prosecution.

The investigation continues "to identify the other people involved" in the fire.

It will also be a question of finding people "who participated in the violence committed against firefighters and police," adds the prosecution.

Indeed, according to the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (SDIS) of the North, the firefighters had been targeted by fireworks mortars as soon as they arrived at the scene of the disaster.

They had to call in police reinforcements in order to be able to work in safety.

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