In the early morning this Saturday, July 26, a sixty -something woman failed to set fire to an artisanal device placed in front of the brand. The multinational is a privileged target of Propalestinian activists.
A quarter of a century after the dismantling of McDonald’s de Millau (Aveyron), another establishment of the famous American fast food chain came close to destruction on Saturday, July 26. In the early hours of the morning a sixty-year-old placed an incendiary machine in front of the McDonald’s on rue du 11-Novembre, in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme), learned the Figaro of police source, confirming information from the information Parisian .
The surveillance videos show the man trying to set fire to the device around 3:40, without succeeding, before fleeing. Alerted, the police found an artisanal machine on site, made of a container containing an unknown liquid and surrounded by electric wires. The whole was covered with a damaged Israeli flag.
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The presence of this flag gives a completely different turn to the act, since the prosecution of Clermont-Ferrand opened a flagration investigation for “Attempted destruction by dangerous means committed due to belonging or non-belonging, true or supposed, from the victim to a determined ethnicity, nation, race or religion”. The file was entrusted to the territorial crime of Clermont-Ferrand. The sixty -something has not yet been found or identified. At present, his motivations remain unknown.
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The attempted destruction could be directly related to the conflict in Gaza. McDonald’s has become a target of choice for Propalestinian activists since the multinational announced in November offer thousands of free meals in the Israeli army. On April 4, he also announced an agreement to buy the Alonyal group, owner of the 225 restaurants franchise in Israel, which has been holding the license for over thirty years. Boycott calls had been launched, negatively affecting turnover.
Last April, an McDonald’s restaurant under construction near Toulouse had been burnt down by “Insoumis fries”, an organization that had acted “in support of the Palestinian people, and against the new firm expansion strategy ”, According to a press release sent at the time to AFP.