Attackers heated supermarket fridges to 50°C

Assessment

Les Mousquetaires and much coverage stated the fridges were heated 'to as much as 50°C,' which reads as the temperature the food reached. Le Monde's reporting (carried by L'Usine Digitale and Génération-NT) clarifies that 50°C was the defrost setpoint the attacker commanded on the controller, not a measured cabinet temperature. Employees on site described actual temperatures above 40°C, and one Intermarché store reported cases at 32°C against a normal −23°C setting; another outlet cited up to 80°C in the worst cases. The '50°C' figure is real but is a commanded setpoint, and repeating it as the food temperature overstates and mis-describes what was measured.