Europe 1 with AFP 6:34 p.m., June 15, 2022

A man close to the "ultra-left" movement was arrested last weekend and placed in pre-trial detention, accused of having set fire to around sixty vehicles since 2017 which belonged in particular to public companies or telephone operators.

A man close to the "ultra-left" movement was arrested last weekend and placed in pre-trial detention, accused of having set fire to around sixty vehicles since 2017 which belonged in particular to public companies or telephone operators, learned AFP from a source familiar with the matter.

This forty-year-old man was arrested by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (SDAT) of the judicial police in the Oise where he lived, after having set fire to a BMW and a vehicle on the night of June 10 to 11. diplomacy in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, said this source.

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