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C. Allain / 20 Minutes
The drama dates back to Monday.
A fire that broke out in the early evening around 8 p.m. in the lobby of a building in a popular district of the city of Reims, Châtillons, left one dead and four injured, two of whom were in a state of absolute emergency. .
The disaster required the evacuation of 23 residents grouped together in a neighborhood school.
An investigation had obviously been carried out and entrusted to the judicial police of Reims, with the help of a fire expert.
According to the first elements collected, "the origin of the fire seems criminal" explains this Friday the prosecutor of Reims Matthieu Bourrette.
"The prosecutor's office in Reims (Marne) opened an investigation of criminal flagrance on Monday evening," he said on Friday.
“I opened this investigation of the counts of willful destruction by dangerous means resulting in death, mutilations and temporary interruptions of work (ITT) of more than eight days.
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