A nursery school was ravaged by fire on the night of Saturday to Sunday in Dunkirk and an investigation was opened for " arson ", the first police findings reporting " several starts of fire ", we learned with the prosecution.
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Declared a little before 04:00 in the Trystram school, in the district of Petite-Synthe, the fire " completely destroyed a building of 600 m2 ", without making victims, explained to AFP the departmental fire service and emergency services (SDIS) in the North, which in particular hired 26 firefighters, " three fire engines " and " one air vehicle " on the scene.
" An investigation was opened for arson ," the first findings of the investigators showing " that the fire would have taken place in several places ", and " leaving suspect " a criminal origin, said the prosecutor's office of Dunkirk.
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" The fire was brought under control around 5:00 a.m. but the nursery school building was already 100% destroyed ," said Johan Bodart, deputy mayor of the Petite-Synthe district, who visited the site after being " woken up in the middle of the night by the smell of smoke ". " The buildings of the primary school and the school restaurant, located nearby, have remained intact, " he added. " The priority will be to relocate the reception of the leisure centers ", planned during the summer in the destroyed building, then "to find solutions (...) for the start of the school year ", this building usually accommodating around sixty children, he said.