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Smoke reached sleeping residents after French care home attack

No one was injured at the La Grand-Croix residence, where intruders threatened night staff and started a laundry-room fire, according to the report.

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Un Ehpad saccagé et incendié en pleine nuit dans la Loire｜TF1 INFO

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Smoke spread into a unit where elderly residents were sleeping after intruders ransacked a care home in La Grand-Croix, near Saint-Étienne in central France, according to France's TF1 INFO television news service. No one was injured.

The report shows director Lina Khelifi pointing out shattered doors and windows at the Résidence mutualiste des Tilleuls. At around 2 a.m. during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, two night staff members were alerted by burning trash bins, the journalist reports. Hooded intruders then threatened to kill them.

According to the report, the intruders entered a technical building, smashed dishes, overturned furniture and set fire to a bin in the laundry room. Khelifi says the smoke reached residents' sleeping accommodation and describes the staff's shock at how serious the consequences could have been. Families came to see their relatives that evening.

Police were examining surveillance recordings. Yves Cellier, the Loire area's interdepartmental director of the National Police, says the damage appeared more consistent with gratuitous urban violence than an intention to take lives. That is his assessment, rather than an established motive.

The report closes with no arrests announced and an investigation opened into destruction and damage by fire.

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