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Bobigny – 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 Thursday in Aubervilliers, France. we learned Monday from judicial source.
" He played with a lighter and set a torch on fire, then failed to extinguish ," said the source.
The public prosecutor's office of Bobigny opened Saturday a criminal investigation for arson causing death, a crime punishable by life imprisonment. The child put in examination can however not be judged, his young age making him criminally irresponsible.
The investigating judge decided to impose on the young suspect a " measure of removal " of this town of Seine-Saint-Denis, according to the same source.
The fire started on Thursday around 17:00, and had spread to the last 5 floors of this tower which has 18.
The dead bodies of the victims, a mother of 33 years pregnant and her children of 1, 4 and 6, had been discovered in the early evening in a 17th floor apartment.
Nine people, six residents and three firefighters, were also transported to the hospital, slightly injured.
The Secretary of State for the Cohesion of the Territories, Julien Denormandie, who had visited the scene on Friday, had expressed " (s) we support the family of the victims and the victims ] "and" (s) recognition to the neighborhood youth who saved lives "climbing up the floors to rescue residents even before the arrival of firefighters.
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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