Four concrete mixer trucks set on fire at a company near
Nantes; an investigation has been launched
During the night of Saturday, May 23, around 4:30 a.m., the gendarmerie was alerted to a fire involving concrete mixer trucks in Nort-sur-Erdre, near Nantes. “‘I heard two loud booms,’” explains a resident of the hamlet of La Verrière, who lives about one kilometer as the crow flies from Rue d’Anjou, where four concrete mixer trucks were on fire. The explosions were likely caused by bursting tires or fuel tanks on the vehicles.
This Friday, May 29, trucks blackened by flames are parked in the lot of Bétons Manufacturés de l’Erdre (BME Guimard Bétons), a family-owned business that has been manufacturing and delivering ready-mix concrete for over 40 years. “Forensic investigators have documented the scene,” states the gendarmerie, which is taking this fire very seriously, given the context of opposition against land development.
The ongoing investigation has been entrusted to the Ancenis Criminal Investigation Unit and the Nort-sur-Erdre Independent Unit.

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