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A vehicle of the penitentiary administration burned in front of the prison of Beauvais

Le Parisien/Courrier picard, April 21, 2022 (excerpt)

During the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a vehicle of the penitentiary administration was burned in front of the prison of Beauvais. An investigation was opened by the public prosecutor’s office and entrusted to the city’s police station to try to identify and arrest the suspect, a hooded individual dressed in black, spotted by the prison’s video surveillance cameras around 1:45 am.

According to a source close to the case, the arsonist would have first “sprayed the car with a flammable product that he then poured on the asphalt to make a wick, like in a movie … He lit it and left like he arrived.” Parked in front of the prison’s main entrance gate, the vehicle in question was a prison administration utility vehicle, which was used, among other things, to transport mail. In July 2019 and September 2020, three vehicles belonging to officers of the prison of Liancourt (Oise) had been burned in the parking lot of the prison.

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