After five years of burning cars, for a record of 900 vehicles destroyed and 8.5 million euros of damage, a man, fond of running and more familiar with the sports pages of local newspapers, was arrested by the gendarmerie.

His record is impressive: 120 fire starts, 900 burned vehicles and 8.5 million euros of damage alone! "He" is "everyone, sir". After years of investigation, gendarmes Bas-Rhin have arrested Tuesday a 33-year-old man suspected of being responsible for this incredible and mysterious series of fires that affected the center-Alsace for 5 years! A suspect, also high-level runner, who occupied (at least until now!) "Sports pages" of the local press.

"The training, when I'm at the top, it can be ten workouts a week.I do I walk a lot adrenaline," said the suspect in a report that had devoted a local TV last year. "Power and speed make him a special athlete, his thing is short and tonic races," said the journalist. Short and tonic races, enough to find your way in the slightest wine path in the area. What, for this man without history, long escape the gendarmes.

"It helped to defeat eventually any patrol gendarmerie"

"It's unusual because usually we can expect people who have a psychological profile already marked or a small delinquent.But there is the arsonist, the solitary actor," admits the colonel François Desprets. "It seems that this gentleman has a very good level (running), and he knew the area very well, he knew the place very well, it helped to thwart any patrol gendarmerie eventually."

For him, now finished sports pages of the latest news of Alsace . The news item indicates today that the alleged arsonist is relieved to have been arrested.