Jacques was arrested without incident not long after the attack was conducted by his cell. Others like it had appeared across the city, leaving its emergency services stretched thin.
He was completely unaware of the end that awaited his cell, and many others embedded throughout the city. Without even realizing it, he had been spared their cruel fate.
The act of burning down a place that he knew had nothing to do with his initial resentments towards the German Reich, nor his fears of their influence capturing Swiss institutions.
The ice cream parlor had been a place of refuge to him while he was young and destitute during Switzerland's decades long economic downturn.
He knew the owner well enough to understand that the man was a hardworking patriot of Swiss-German background, but with no love or loyalty to the German Reich, which threatened to devour the Swiss Confederation.
