France, Aug. 6 -- French police were on Wednesday considering whether to charge a man who was arrested for lighting a cigarette using the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

France's Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau, said a manwas arrested on Tuesday for violating a burial site, tomb, urn or monument erected in memory of the dead on Monday.

"He was taken into custody and admitted the facts," Retailleau added.

A video of a man stooping and lighting his cigarette from the flame at the tomb was widely shared on social media, with French newspaperLe Figaro reporting that it was filmed by a Latvian tourist and initially shared on TikTok.

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