French police to DNA test entire male population of village in hunt for serial firebug who torched holiday homes popular with Brits
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 8, 2013 20:06
The entire adult male population of a small village in northwestFranceare to be DNA tested in a bid to identify a firebug who has destroyed eight properties over the past year, including holiday homes rented out to British tourists.
Four hundred Frenchmen aged between 15 and 75, representing half the population of Larmor Baden, on the coast of southern Brittany, will be asked to give saliva samples to forensic Gendarmes this week who will go from to house in a bid to trace the culprit.
Their genetic profiles will be compared with DNA found by investigators at the scene of one of the blazes.
The firebug first struck just over a year ago when three holiday homes went up in smoke leading investigators to suspect racist attacks.
Then the village Post Office and another holiday home were torched. Since then a garage, a bar and an ancient presbytery owned by the village have been targeted.
A spokesperson at the Village Hall refused to link the attacks to racism saying the holiday homes were not British owned but only rented out to tourists including Britons.
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