A 23-year-old man has been charged with two counts of arson in connection with fires set last week in Charlottetown, including burning a Pride flag.
City police said in a release Wednesday that the man was arrested over the weekend after being identified using E-watch and video footage from local business cameras from downtown Charlottetown.
The two incidents happened in the early morning of July 19.
In the first, a Pride flag attached to a home on Sidney Street was set on fire at 1 a.m., causing some damage to the building’s siding before it was extinguished.
A few hours later, two witnesses saw someone place a burning cup over an electrical box at a University Avenue home and a man running away.
Members of the city’s LGBTQ+ community reacted with shock to the incidents that occurred while Charlottetown’s annual Pride Festival was taking place. A prominent member of the community lives in the house where the pride flag was burned.
Police said the man charged was released Tuesday morning and is scheduled to appear in court at a later date.
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