The suspect, well known to the police, had a residence permit valid on French soil until October 2025.
The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, will withdraw the residence permit suspected of having lit a cigarette using the flame of the tomb of the unknown soldier on Monday August 4 in Paris, learned Le Figaro a source close to the file, confirming information fromEurope 1 .
According to the information revealed by Le Figarothe suspect is a fixed home of Moroccan nationality in regular situations on French territory until October 2025.
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Arrested on the avenue de la Grande Army (Paris 17th) on Tuesday around 6 p.m., the man denied his responsibility at first, before quickly recognizing the facts. He is criticized for a “violation of burial, tomb, cinéraire urn or monument built in memory of the dead”, an offense which makes, in theory, one year of imprisonment and 15,000 euros fine.
This man, well known to the police, has 21 mentions in the process of treatment for judicial history (TAJ), including car, degradation, violence or even public insult because of the race.
The filmed scene
A procedure had been opened after the broadcast on social networks on Monday evening of a video showing the man lighting a cigarette on the tomb of the unknown soldier, located under the Arc de Triomphe.
According to information collected by The Figarothe video would have been shot by a Latvian tourist on Monday August 4 shortly before 9 p.m., and posted for the first time on the Tiktok social network in stride. “He didn’t seem to be alcoholic or under the influence of drugs. On the contrary, he was manifestly aware of what he was doing, and proud to have done it ”assures us the one who presents herself as the author of the video.
