It remains to be determined whether the opening of the gas, at the origin of the explosion that killed three people, was voluntary or unintentional, depending on the floor.
Le Monde
The gas, which caused an explosion in early December and then the collapse of a building in Sanary-sur-Mer (Var) killing three people, was opened by human intervention, said Tuesday, January 4th The toulon floor.
“It will be necessary to determine whether [this human intervention] is voluntary (especially suicide) or involuntary (negligence or other),” said the acting prosecutor of the Republic of Toulon, Dominique Mirkovic.
No anomaly detected
The three-storey building, located on the port of this city of 15,000 inhabitants, collapsed in the middle of the night on December 7 after an explosion due to gas. A woman and her baby housed on the top floor have been alive extracts from the rubble in the morning. The father, thirty years old, died.
The bodies of a 91-year-old woman and her 58-year-old handicapped son, living on the ground floor and on the first floor, had been found in the rubble the next day, bearing the balance sheet at three dead.
The trail of the gas leak or a maintenance fault of the gas distribution network seems to be moving away. GrDF had carried out a check in October that did not raise an anomaly.