A judicial investigation was opened following the fire, probably of criminal origin, of a building partly squatted in Marseille which claimed the lives of three men of 24, 26 and 33 years old, of Nigerian nationality, a announced Tuesday the prosecution.
A woman and her four-year-old child were also seriously injured in the fire.
Shortly after 5 am on July 17, a fire broke out in the block of a building, largely squatted by Nigerian migrants, located in the HLM “Les Flamants” city in the north of Marseille.
"At least the existence of two fire starts"
The judicial information was opened Friday by the Marseille prosecutor's office on charges of "damage by fire resulting in death" and "damage by fire resulting in mutilation or permanent disability", concerning the two seriously injured.
But also for "damage by fire resulting in total incapacity for work of more than eight days" concerning four other injured men aged 24, 26, 28 and 33 years and finally "damage by fire resulting in total incapacity for work not exceeding eight days ”about a 22-year-old man.
“We have at least the existence of two fires, one on the sixth floor, the other in the stairwell.
What makes us leave on a criminal track, had declared the day of the fire Dominique Laurens, prosecutor of Marseilles during a press point.
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