No track is ruled out, in Saint-Laurent-de-Salanque (Pyrénées-Orientales), near Perpignan, after the death of eight people, including two young children, in the fire of a building, on the night of Sunday to Monday.
"All theses are worked on to try to understand the cause of the fire, we do not know if it was of accidental or human origin", declared Tuesday evening the prosecutor of Perpignan, Jean-David Cavaillé, mentioning however “Testimonies, currently being analyzed, which allow us to consider a track which may be criminal”.
Three or four needed to try to explain what happened
Shortly after the fire, which broke out around 1:30 a.m. on the night of Sunday to Monday, the prosecution had opened an investigation for voluntary damage by fire resulting in death and damage.
“At this moment, it is impossible for me to say if the explosion followed the fire or if the fire followed the explosion”, said the prosecutor of Perpignan, for whom at least three or four days will be necessary. to gather the elements to explain what happened.
The drama also injured four people, including a serious one, a man who jumped from the second floor to escape the flames.
He is hospitalized in Montpellier.
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