A family dies in the flames in Pau: the mother had lodged a complaint for violence against her husband



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DRAME – Five bodies including one of a child were found after the fire of an apartment in Pau in the night of 9 to 10 July. According to our information, the trail of a fire arson is preferred by the investigators, who also discovered a woman tied up in the apartment, the mother of the child. The husband would have opened his veins.

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A "family dispute" that would have turned to mbadacre. This is the track that is studied after the discovery on Tuesday morning in a downtown Pau apartment of five bodies, four adults and a child, members of the same family. According to the first elements of the investigation, the mother of the child was tied up and gagged and the father slashed veins.

The firemen were called Tuesday morning by a person "who could not open the door of the apartment in which the fire occurred and who was worried because she saw blood running on the edge of one of the windows of the apartment, "said the relief. According to the same source, "when we arrived in the apartment, a sofa was burning". The fire was "quickly controlled", according to firefighters.

According to the neighbor interviewed by AFP, the apartment was occupied by a Franco-Spanish couple, parents of a child of two years. The man was French, his wife, a Spanish woman in her thirties, was a teacher. The young woman's parents, the Spaniards from Zaragoza, came to visit them in Pau. "A big argument broke out at 5 am, I heard screams of children," said the lady. So many signs pointing to the possibility of a marital crime, while a source close to the investigation reports that "there had been police interventions in this family in connection with a separation that went wrong".

"As a result of a fire, someone would have set a sofa on fire, neighbors seeing smoke this morning have alerted the fire department, and there appears to be a family dispute that has turned into a mbadacre. Nothing more is known, "said Jean-Paul Brin, first deputy mayor of Pau.

According to our information, the mother was found tied up and gagged. Her husband "would have slashed his veins," adds a source to AFP. As for the parents of the young woman, present in the apartment, "they carry traces of violence by blunt objects". There is, however, "no trace of apparent violence on the child, who died as a result of the fire."

According to neighbors interviewed by the newspaper Sud Ouest "disputes were frequent within the couple". According to a colleague of the wife, interviewed by the newspaper, she reportedly recently filed a complaint for violence against her husband. Autopsies should take place in the next few days. The judicial police of Pau is in charge of the investigation.

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