The identity of the victims has not yet been confirmed. According to several neighbors interviewed, this family would be of Syrian nationality.
Le Monde with AFP
Two adults and two children died in a fire that broke out in their apartment in Strasbourg on Monday, June 13, in the early morning, we learned from the prosecution. “There are four deceased victims, a family, two adults and two children,” said a magistrate of the prosecution. “We have just opened an investigation entrusted to the departmental security to search for the causes of the fire,” added this same source.
The identity of the victims has not yet been confirmed. According to several neighbors interviewed, this family is of Syrian nationality and the two children aged about 7 or 8 years. At the beginning of the morning, the fire was extinguished and the firefighters, arrived very quickly on the spot according to neighbors, had left the premises, noted a journalist from the France-Presse agency.
On the third floor of this social housing building in the south of Strasbourg, several windows appeared blackened by the flames. “We felt the smoke, it woke us up, we got out and we heard the mother, the dad and the children shouting,” reported Anissa, a neighbor on the ground floor, who specifies having called the firefighters to 5 hours.
According to the social landlord of the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg Ophéa, who will relocate people whose apartment was deteriorated by the fire, this building was registered in an urban renewal program. He was to be the subject soon to work.