Between 2014 and 2016, several lotto halls were set on fire in Tarn, Aveyron and Tarn-et-Garonne.
Until the gendarmes arrested arsonists at the Séquestre, near Albi.
Two young people from Marseille.
Investigators will eventually trace the trail of a sponsor, himself the owner of a lotto room in Villeneuve-sur-Vère in the Tarn.
This 72-year-old man was sentenced this Thursday to four years in prison by the criminal court of Albi.
The latter would have wanted to eliminate the competition and take revenge on his former partner, owner of the rooms affected by the fires.
Arsonists recruited in Marseille
The ten performers, recruited in Marseille by the sponsor's nephew, were sentenced to terms ranging from two months in prison suspended to 18 months in prison.
During their intervention, they received nearly 15,000 euros per destroyed room, the surface of which could reach several hundred meters.
Those sentenced to the most important penalties, will have to pay jointly and severally fines of more than 150,000 euros in total for moral damage and operating losses.
"I thought I had demonstrated […] that all the accusations were based on fantasies and on the depositions of a single person," reacted Jean-Baptiste Alary, the commissioner's lawyer.
The latter deplored a "heavy sentence", "without material evidence" for a man who claims his innocence.
He said he was “likely to appeal” the decision.
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