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A 10-year-old child was indicted in Bobigny on suspicion of causing a fire in a public housing tower that caused the death of a mother and three children on Thursday in Aubervilliers. -on learned Monday from judicial source.
"He played with a lighter and set a torch on fire then he failed to extinguish," said this source.
The floor of Bobigny had Saturday opened a judicial investigation for arson causing death, a crime punishable by life imprisonment. However, the child under investigation can not be judged, his young age making him criminally irresponsible.
The investigating judge decided to impose on the young suspect a "measure of removal" from this municipality of Seine- Saint-Denis, according to this same source.
The fire had spread to the last 5 floors
The fire had left Thursday around 17 hours, and had spread to the last 5 floors of this tower which has 18
The inanimate bodies of the victims, a 33-year-old pregnant mother and her children aged 1, 4 and 6, were discovered in the early evening in a 17th-floor apartment.
Nine people, six inhabitants and three firefighters, had also been transported to the hospital, slightly injured.
The Secretary of State for Cohesion of the Territories, Julien Denormandie, who had visited the scene Friday, had expressed "(s) we support the family of the victims and the victims "and "(s) gratitude to the youth of the neighborhood who saved lives" climbing the floors to rescue the inhabitants even before the arrival of firefighters.
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Seine -Saint-Denis
A minor under investigation
When a minor is prosecuted for an offense, an investigation may be conducted by a juvenile judge or an investigating judge. A minor over the age of 13 may go into pretrial detention. But what about a 10-year-old child?
During the investigation, the judge can only take educational measures against the minor. As criminal reparation measures, placements in an educational center, according to a decree on child offenders modified in 2016.
If it is a serious offense or a crime the child can be sent back to the children's court, still according to the same source.
A similar situation in 2016
An 11-year-old boy, seriously wounded one of his clbadmates in June 2016, in front of a school in Vénissieux , near Lyon. He had also been indicted for "attempted murder". Placed in foster care, the boy had "admitted the materiality of the facts," according to a source close to the record.
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