Ten people, including four children, died on the night of December 15 to 16 in the fire of a building in this commune in the Lyon suburbs.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
The Lyon prosecution announced on Monday 19 December the opening of a judicial information for “voluntary degradation by fire which led to death”, three days after the fire of a building in Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône ) During the night of December 15 to 16, in which ten people perished including four children.
The judicial information, led by two investigating judges, was also opened from heads of “voluntary degradation by fire which led to a total incapacity for work greater than eight days and voluntary degradation by fire which led to a total incapacity work of less than eight days, “he added in a press release.
“On the merits, the prosecution confirms that no investigation hypothesis is neither privileged nor ruled out and that it is simply a question of continuing the investigations under the authority of these magistrates,” said ‘Agency France-Presse (AFP) The public prosecutor of Lyon, Nicolas Jacquet. Sunday, the Lyon prosecution told AFP that the claim had caused the death of six adults and four children.
A previous assessment reported five minors among the ten dead. Twenty-four people were also injured in the fire, including four seriously. The prosecution added that no arrest had taken place since the opening of the investigation for “voluntary degradation by fire which led to death”.
Saturday evening, the same prosecution had reported that the expert reports still had permit “to determine whether the origin of the fire [was] voluntary or accidental”. “No trace of flammable product was detected in the samples taken from the scene of the disaster,” he said.
The fire had occurred on Friday at 3 am in a seven -story building, located in a popular district in full urban renovation. The fire had pushed inhabitants to rush into the void, a woman who even threw her son from the fourth floor to save her life, before jumping herself from her balcony, according to testimonies collected by AFP.