Italian police arrested a 37-year-old Moroccan national on Thursday, May 4 for arson, damaging, and vandalizing public property in Florence.
According to Italian local media, the man’s eventful night can be traced back to a long series of mainly incendiary damage, starting on approximately midnight, after he allegedly attempted to set a local bank on fire.
The flames allegedly spread from a large dumpster, caught in near metal boxes, a camera, reaching the ceiling of the bank.
A potential fire with worse consequences was thankfully avoided thanks to a quick intervention.
A little later around 01 am, several cars, bicycles and the facade of a building were set on fire.
In the city’s Via Lulli area, a display window was allegedly broken using a public street sign, found by officers still leaning on the door of the business.
Around 02:00 am police officers intervened for another incident, also including a dumpster on fire, broken display windows and destroyed private business property.
Shortly before 03:30 am the Moroccan suspect broke into five cars.
The local police’s search led around 6 am to the suspect, found in a “highly agitated state,” according to local media, who then resisted arrest by throwing construction material from a balcony at the officers on site.
The man also physically assaulted officers, who managed to arrest the Moroccan national.
The suspect has a criminal record of similar incidents, and “was found in possession of a sweatshirt with obvious burn marks, two containers of flammable solvent, a lighter and a rock.”
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