Woman with a psychiatric history accused of causing a fire that killed 10 people in the Parisian building | World

The Paris public prosecutor's office explained that the suspect, who had been detained in a police psychiatric facility, had been charged with a "fire to the death".

The Tuesday fire in a building in the 16th arrondissement, a privileged area of ​​the French capital, was the deadliest in Paris for nearly 14 years.

The suspect, Essia B., aged About 40 years old, who lived in the building, had been neat a dozen times in psychiatric hospitals during the last decade.

Six days before the fire, a doctor declared her fit after 12 days at the hospital and she was allowed to leave the clinic, Attorney Remy Heitz said at the time of the fire. a press conference this week.

Suspicions had maintained repeated discussions with a firefighter neighbor, the last one just before the fire.