A 5-year-old child died and two others were seriously burned in the fire of an apartment in the city of Rosiers, denounced as a lair of “sleep merchants”.
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Debris of the fire lies at the back of the J1 building of the residence of Rosiers. In the icy mistral of this Wednesday, January 5, marine firefighters and police are busy under the disillusioned eye of the inhabitants. On the ninth floor, the penultimate of this large housing bar, the blackened windows of an apartment of 64 m 2 testify to the drama that has just torn in this condominium of 14 E Arrondissement of Marseille, where more than 3,000 people reside.
The sinister, whose origin has not yet been determined, was shortly after 7 hours and ravaged, according to the firefighters, an apartment of type 4 in which seven people lived, three adults and Four children. A 5 year old boy died on site. The other six inhabitants have been evacuated to the Timone Hospital, including a 2-month-old baby and a 6-year-old girl, seriously burned. Four neighbors were also supported for smoke poisoning. The Mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, who went on the spot, “said” deeply saddened “by the drama.
Mohamed Soilihi, neighboring land, was one of the first to try to help the inhabitants, awakened by “cries heard as in a dream.” Shocked, he tells the wall of flames that barred the corridor of the apartment. “The food was not touched, the fire looks like the living room”, he felt two hours later. As at home, the heating of the next-side apartment was provided by electrical appliances.
“I do not feel safe”
At the bottom of the building, Laïd Laribi, 48, including twenty-eight to hold the general diet of roses, ensures not being amazed. On the other side of green spaces with airs of vague field, it shows another fly of carbonized windows in the J1 twin building: “an apartment burned, a few months ago. It’s very common here it There are so many unhealthy housing, “he testifies. “Personally, I do not feel safe at home,” Abonds Amida Houmadi, 35 years old, living on the second floor of J1
This tenant provides paying 790 euros for a 60 m 2 in which moisture makes the daily unobstruble. “Children can no longer have soaked mattresses. It has been reported but neither the owners nor the trustee do something”, she hopes. Dominique (she wants to remain anonymous), her neighbor, turned videos where, she says, “we see the water flowing ceilings”. Farid Mahmoudi, a tenant at J2, the other entrance to the residential bar where the fire was declared, paying 720 euros for a 64 m 2 . “Here, it would be necessary to shave. It’s been three years since I ask for a housing elsewhere. There is none for us,” he regrets.
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