An 11-year-old child died and eleven people were injured in a violent fire that ravaged, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, a HLM Schiltigheim, in the northern suburbs of Strasbourg

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Confessions, 24 hours after the dramatic Schiltigheim fire. The suspect arrested Tuesday morning by the police admitted, that night, in custody in Strasbourg, to have intentionally set fire to the half-timbered building that burned in the night from Monday to Tuesday. An 11-year-old child died in this fire.

Contrary to what the investigators thought at first, there is no racist motive. It would be rather "the work" of a drunken young man already known by the police for arson.