French police on Tuesday arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of taking part in the October 17 arson of Limoges city hall, three days after the riots that gutted the 1883 building. The elite RAID unit's Bordeaux branch took him at 6:15 a.m. in a small, isolated house at Val d'Issoire, in the Haute-Vienne department, according to the Limoges prosecutor's office. The prosecutor called him a "person suspected in the fire." He is presumed innocent and has not been charged.
The burnt city hall of the central city of Limoges, France, on October 18, 2026. CLOTAIRE ACHI / REUTERSA source close to the case told Franceinfo he is an "ultra-left activist" already on the "fiché S" security watchlist. Some outlets first reported his age as 40; Franceinfo corrected it to 34. The prosecutor said investigators identified him through "painstaking" cross-checking of images and videos. ICI, the public radio network, reports that he is from the neighboring Creuse department and is suspected of earlier sabotage of TGV overhead lines and
