The criminal track is privileged in the fire that killed eight people, including two children, in the early morning Wednesday in a building in the north of Paris, the most serious incident since 2005 in the capital. A man in his thirties, “that may have been present” on the scene, was arrested “in the neighborhood” and placed in custody, according to sources close to the investigation, entrusted by the Paris prosecutors to the criminal brigade of the judicial police. He was arrested “following the operation of the first testimonies and CCTV images, but it remains very cautious,” said one of these sources told AFP. “The criminal track is privileged,” confirmed Minister of Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, on Europe 1 radio after visiting the scene.
In case, two successive fire starts, two hours apart on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, in the same building 4, Myrha street in the 18th arrondissement. There has therefore been a “two different interventions at the same address”, 2 hours 23 minutes and 4 hours 30, reported on-site spokesman for the Paris fire brigade, the commander Gabriel Plus. The first was a fire of paper “limited”. “Obviously when you have two calls on the same night, one can not ignore that it may be a malicious act,” said his side the spokesman of the Ministry of the Interior, Pierre-Henry Brandet . One or more people were seen running away after the fire, and police want to know if they are involved
Bernard Cazeneuve lamented a “heavy toll. Eight dead, four wounded who are still relative urgency “. Among the deceased, two were défenestrées, others died intoxicated, according to firefighters.
Fire “from the ground floor to the roof”
The fire said the ground floor of an apartment building before spreading into the stairwell, told AFP a source close to the investigation. According to the spokesman for the firefighters, this five-story beige building were affected by fire “on the ground floor to the roof.” A large vertical black mark was visible Wednesday morning on three levels, while firemen came out of her face covered in soot building, in a strong smell of burning. Hidden behind a tarpaulin deployed outside the building, the bodies of the victims were evacuated in mid-day.
a heavy silence reigns on the Goutte d’Or bereaved, mines are serious in the vicinity
– Jean-Raphaël Bourge (jrbourge) September 2, 2015
“I saw the flames, I saw bodies on the ground lifeless,” he told AFP tissem Ferjani, a confectioner who Myrha street live in this popular area of Paris. “It was about four in the morning, I was awakened by the screams, people were screaming for help, they had no choice, or they stayed at home and they died or they went out of the window and they fell. “
” The fire is out since 8:00 but the intervention is not over, “said the commander Plus. Firefighters, who have made a hundred men, spoke at risk of collapse of the staircase that is kindled but not the building itself. “The building is a private building,” “there is neither social housing or treatment for unhealthy,” assured the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, alongside the Minister of Interior for his part said he had been a “recent renovation” and was “secured” by a “security code”. Fifteen homes were affected, said the mayor. “Paris is grieving this morning,” said she was.
This is the deadliest fires in Paris since 2005, when a wave of fires had fifty dead in the capital. Most murderers had been that of the Paris-Opéra (24 dead, including 11 children) in April and that of Vincent Auriol boulevard (17 dead, including 14 children), in the 13th district in August.
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