Cars torched in Chomedey

In the very early hours of Nov. 29, two fires were set in parked cars at 108 7th St. and at 61 Léon St. in Chomedey, which the police believe were criminal.
In both cases the vehicles, which were write-offs after being torched, had been parked under Tempo car shelters. Around 1:30 a.m., a woman at the first address was awakened when the alarm in her car was triggered by an intrusion. Looking out the window to see what was going on, she saw flames erupting from inside her vehicle.
After watering down the first flaming car, the firemen then broke all its windows. According to Di Genova, the vehicle was totaled and the Tempo, made of plastic sheeting, also suffered damage. One of the firefighers on the scene speculated to another Laval newspaper that a molotov cocktail was used to ignite the blaze.
“What kind of expertise did he have to tell the journalist that it was a molotov cocktail?” said the police spokesman. “How can you tell the difference between the bottle and the four or five windows that were broken? I will agree a hundred and ten per cent that it was a criminally-set fire, but I am in no position to say it was a molotov cocktail.”
Di Genova said he had heard nothing from the Laval Police working on the case about a molotov cocktail being found in the burned out car. “If they had found any element that resembled a molotov cocktail I would have heard about it by now.”