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Five people including a child died on Tuesday morning in the fire of an apartment in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), reports France 3 New Aquitaine. The track of a family tragedy is preferred by the investigators.
The fire, whose origin remains indeterminate, was triggered around 6:40 am on the 1st floor of a small apartment building which includes four, at 10 rue Richelieu, in the city center.
The firefighters were called by a neighbor "who could not open the door of the apartment in which the fire occurred and who was concerned because she saw blood flowing on the edge of one of the windows of the apartment, "reports France Bleu Béarn.
The fire, which mobilized about twenty firefighters, was" quickly mastered. " Inside, the firefighters discovered the five bodies and "a couch that was burning."
One of the victims tied up and gagged
"These are two couples and one child. The drama unfolded inside (of the apartment). There are traces of violence on one couple and the wife on the other. Everything suggests that we are on the trail of a family drama, "said a source close to the investigation. "The young woman was found bound and gagged with adhesive around her neck," said the source. According to neighbors interviewed by the daily Sud Ouest, "the disputes were frequent within the couple". According to a colleague of the wife, interviewed by the newspaper, she would have recently lodged a complaint for violence against her husband.
A neighbor testifies (France 3 New-Aquitaine)
[19659002] According to a neighbor who lived in the building, 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. "What's happening is very shocking," says the neighbor. The woman told me that she was transferred elsewhere, that she had to leave at the end of the year because she was a teacher but she did not want to leave, that she felt good here and that she was going to regret it.
According to other neighbors, the young woman's parents, the Spaniards from Zaragoza, had recently arrived.
There would be "no trace of apparent violence on the child, which would be died in the aftermath of the fire. "
A Burned Sofa
" Someone would have set a sofa on fire, the neighbors seeing the smoke this morning have alerted the fire department. It seems that there was a family dispute that turned to the mbadacre, "said Jean-Paul Brin, first deputy mayor of Pau. A neighbor reports that "a big argument broke out at five in the morning, I heard cries of children."
The fire did not spread to neighboring apartments. Twenty-seven people nevertheless had to be evacuated from the building, says The Republic of the Pyrenees.
The district was cordoned off and the judicial police were seized. Autopsies should take place in the coming days.
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