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Article: Four cars set alight in one night; ARSON ATTACKS
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- The Press
- Article date:
- March 4, 2009
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Arsonists who set fire to four cars in Christchurch have ruined
the plans of a French student who bought his first vehicle a week
ago to visit New Zealand's high country.
A Christchurch invalid beneficiary who bought his car a month ago
on finance was another victim of the arsonists.
Christchurch was hit by a spate of car fires in the middle of
last year. However, police say there is no evidence suggesting the
latest fires are related to those blazes.
French student Jean-Luc Cretier, 23, said he returned to his
Mathesons Rd, Phillipstown, home on Monday about 10.30pm and found a
group of young people around his new car, one of whom was trying the
door handle.
He told them to leave his ...