The body of a woman was found in a Roma camp in the city of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne) ravaged overnight by a fire, the Créteil prosecutor's office and firefighters said on Wednesday, requested by AFP .
Her husband, suspected of having killed her, was taken into custody.
The firefighters intervened Tuesday evening around midnight in a precarious installation camp where a fire was ravaging forty barracks, near a motorway interchange.
Thirty trucks and between 70 and 100 firefighters were deployed.
The fire was brought under control after more than two and a half hours of intervention and 150 people were evacuated.
An open investigation
During the night, the lifeless body of a 39-year-old woman was also found in this camp.
His companion, a 33-year-old man, was in police custody Wednesday morning, said the Créteil prosecutor's office, confirming information from the Parisian.
According to the newspaper, the man was drunk and had a knife on him when he was arrested.
An investigation of the counts of murder by spouse, voluntary destruction by fire and modification of the inventory of the scene of a crime or an offense to obstruct the manifestation of the truth has been opened.
She was entrusted to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne.
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