The Saint-Brieuc public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the "destruction by fire" of a house in Caurel (Côtes-d'Armor) whose exterior walls were tagged with the inscription "FLB" (Front de libération de la Brittany).
The fire, which occurred on the night of May 17 to 18, did not claim any victims, the house, a second home, being unoccupied at the time of the events.
The gendarmes noted two inscriptions "FLB", probably made with a stencil, at the time of the findings, according to the prosecution.
The prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc Nicolas Heitz entrusted the investigation to the zonal direction of the judicial police of Rennes.
The secondary residences targeted
Dormant for several years, the Front de Liberation de la Bretagne had been talked about again at the end of March, calling for "the organization of a referendum on the reunification of Loire-Atlantique with Brittany" and "on the autonomy or 'independence of reunified Brittany'.
At the end of November, the FLB had also claimed in a letter a series of "attacks on second homes or profiteers of the tourist industry" between 2017 and 2021. Its militants mainly distinguished themselves in the late 1960s and in the 1960s. 1970 by multiplying the attacks almost everywhere on the territory.
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