The alert was given a little before 5 a.m. by police inside the police station. They heard an explosion outside and could only see the damage: two vehicles on fire and of course no one around. For the police there is no doubt that it is a criminal act. It is undoubtedly a Molotov cocktail which reached a first car before the fire spread to the one next door.
The event prompted a reaction from union officials in the department and beyond since the general secretary of the SGP Police FO unit union indicated that it could be reprisals following the work of the police against trafficking in narcotics. The site must be “better secured”, says Grégory Joron. It must be said that in Firminy, the cars of the National Police are not parked in a closed place. An event which in any case confirms the tensions known for years between the police and delinquents in the valley of the Ondaine.