The investigation is ongoing. A minor has been indicted for the arson of the porch of the town hall of Bordeaux, during incidents that followed a demonstration against the pension reform on March 23, said Friday the prosecutor's office of Bordeaux.
Arrested Thursday, this 17-year-old man was indicted for "damage to public property by incendiary substance in assembly" and placed under judicial control.
Four other men have been indicted for the same offences since the beginning of the investigation and two are being remanded in custody.
The massive wooden door of the city hall of Bordeaux had been set on fire on the evening of March 23, after a day of demonstration against the pension reform punctuated by excesses and a few days before the visit in France, including Bordeaux, of King Charles III of England, finally canceled the next day.
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The disaster, whose images had been widely reported on social networks and in the media, had lasted about fifteen minutes before being extinguished by firefighters.
At the beginning of April, the ecologist mayor Pierre Hurmic had announced the organization of an online vote for the inhabitants to choose between three repair scenarios: "redo identically" this work of the eighteenth century, "repair the burned door and keep it thus", in its burnt black appearance, or "install a resolutely contemporary door, which could be the subject of a competition" of artists.
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