Paris: A violent fire, possibly intentional, killed several people

Eight people died Monday, February 4 at night in the fire, apparently intentional, of a building in southwestern Paris for which a woman was arrestedsaid the Paris prosecutor, Rémy Heitz. This is a resident of the building and an investigation was opened for "deliberate destruction by fire with fatal consequences," he said.

Officers of the anti-crime brigade arrested the woman a few minutes after the start of the fire. According to the investigations, the woman allegedly attempted to burn a car by burning a shirt that she had thrown into a garbage container and could have exhausted her mental faculties.

A woman was arrested by fire, apparently intentional, of a building south-west of Paris

Some 200 Paris firefighters, 27 of them slightly injured, including three colleagues, worked for six hours to put out the fire of this building built in the 1970s and had to rescue refugees on the roofs, in addition to 39 evacuate two buildings nearby.

"Thirty people had to be evacuated by stairs," said the spokesman. AFP., after declaring the fire at 1 am, Paris time, in this building located near the Trocadero, the Parc des Princes, the stadium of Paris Saint Germain, the forest of Boulogne and the tennis club Roland Garros .

On January 12, a gas explosion and the fire that followed left 4 dead in the center of the French capital.