Under cover of darkness on the night of April 6–7, a series of coordinated arson attacks struck multiple sites connected to the arms industry in France’s Cher department, raising concerns about targeted sabotage and the security of critical infrastructure. Far from being isolated incidents, they reflect a worrying trend: that of radical activism reaching a new level by directly targeting the country’s strategic industrial capabilities in a climate of relative leniency and underestimation of the phenomenon.
