The 50-year-old man, who was also armed with a knife, was arrested. Nine people suffered minor cases of poisoning from the smoke.
It is the story of an arson in a flat that could have ended in tragedy. On Saturday morning, a neighbour raised the alarm. She had just heard a man shouting “Allah Akbar” in her apartment block in Impasse de l’Epi in Avignon. After a short time, she could also smell something burning. When she left her flat, she discovered that a flat on the first floor below her own was on fire. No one in the neighbourhood was surprised. Everyone knows the resident, a man in his 50s who suffers from mental health problems and has been making life difficult for his neighbours for many months. At around 9.30 a.m. yesterday, the first fire engines and police vehicles entered the tiny street that runs parallel to the Montfavet road. La Provence