The pictures are impressive. A fire broke out on Wednesday evening, around 11 p.m. in the Suzanne-Buisson hall in Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis). Despite the intervention of nearly 80 firefighters during the night, the market hall located in the north of the city was partially destroyed.
@BFMTV fire near the Bondy conforama. pic.twitter.com/bWKnaKRnci
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In a press release released on Thursday, the president of the special delegation of Bondy, Jean-Luc Combe, affirms that no victim is to be deplored. “The police and the courts are seized to determine the circumstances of this degradation of public equipment, which affects the lives of the inhabitants of the district”, he adds.
Tense climate as elections approach
On Facebook, the outgoing mayor, Stephen Hervé (LR), considers the criminal trail “given its scale”, and denounces an “act of great cowardice which will complicate the lives of Bondynoises and Bondynois”. This event is part of a deleterious climate, with the approach of the partial municipal elections scheduled for January 30, while the car of the candidate and former mayor, Sylvine Thomassin, was set on fire on January 21 and two churches were ransacked. January 10.
Jean-Luc Combe specifies in his press release that his delegation, whose role is to ensure the functions of the municipal council until the elections, makes every effort to ensure that the ballot takes place “in order”.