Three suspicious fires which broke out during a period of approximately an hour and a half on Thursday night, on the island of Montreal, are in addition to those which occurred earlier this week.
The Montreal City Police Service (SPVM) reports that Thursday’s three incidents did not cause any injuries, but that no arrests could be made.
The first fire occurred around 1:30 a.m. when flames rose from three cars parked near a property on Alexis-Nihon Boulevard, in the Saint-Laurent borough.
After a few minutes, the flames spread to a fourth vehicle as well as the facade of a house, but firefighters from the Montreal Fire Department (SIM) managed to extinguish them and limit the damage. At the end of the night, the cause of this event remained unknown.
Around 2:40 a.m., a window of a house on Graham Boulevard, in the municipality of Mont-Royal, was smashed and an incendiary object was thrown inside. People were in the home, but they were not injured and damage to the property was minor.
Finally, around 3 a.m., another fire broke out in the Saint-Laurent borough, this time in a building housing a reception room located on rue des Nations. Another incendiary object thrown through a broken window was the cause of the incident.
The investigations into these three fires were entrusted to the SPVM arson squad. This squad had inherited four investigation files two days earlier after arson attacks occurring in less than two hours were perpetrated at four commercial establishments: two in the Saint-Laurent borough, one in the Rivière-des district. -Prairies and another in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district.