Fire at police officer's home in Auch: no link established with profession
The prosecutor of Gers declared on Monday that no evidence currently allowed linking the fire at a police officer's home in Auch to his profession, contradicting the statement of the Interior Minister.
No link established with victim's profession
The fire that destroyed the home of a police officer in Auch on Saturday morning had no established link with the victim's profession, according to the prosecutor. "This is a fire whose origin experts will likely confirm was deliberate, but it is absolutely premature at this point to indicate a link with the police officer's activities," said Claude Derens, interim prosecutor in Gers, on Monday 9 November.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez had nevertheless declared immediately after the incident on the social network X that "everything suggests that this intolerable criminal act was committed because of this police officer's profession". According to BFM TV, objects have been seized and DNA analyses are underway. The burnt-out building was the place where the police officer slept during his night shift, and not his family home.
Investigators are therefore continuing their investigation into the actual causes of this fire on Saturday evening in the Landes, without for now establishing a motive linked to the owner's professional activity.
Source: BFM TV