Investigators do not exclude the criminal trail after the large fire that ravaged an abandoned warehouse in Le Havre last weekend, where incidents had already occurred in the past, said Monday, October 26 a police source.
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“We are considering all possible avenues.
We do not rule out the criminal track.
It is a shed in which were stored boxes of clothes in plastic.
It had been known for a long time and that it was the object of envy, ”said this source.
"There had already been interventions for people trying to enter the building," added the police source, specifying that it is a former site of the Lipton brand today managed by France Logistique.
The causes of the fire complicated to determine
Asked about this, the deputy prosecutor of Le Havre, Cyrille Fournier, confirmed that "to date, no hypothesis is privileged".
The causes of the fire will not be easy to determine "given the damage and the number of hours during which the firefighters watered", according to the same source.
According to the prefecture, 120,000 m3 of textile material and cardboard boxes have burned.
The fire broke out early Saturday afternoon and was not extinguished until Sunday around 8 p.m., according to firefighters, who then left the scene before intervening again for verification on Monday, a resident having reported smoke.
Monday evening, the firefighters had left the scene.
The Robin des Bois association said in a press release Monday that this warehouse was "rented to France Logistique from 1999, immediately after the closure of Fralib, a subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch group Unilever".
"It remains to be seen in this labyrinth who is the owner of the burnt warehouse and under what conditions it was rented", adds the association, specifying that France Logistique has been in liquidation since April 2020. Saturday the prefecture had assured that the measures air "make it possible to confirm the absence of danger", even if the fumes "may represent an odor nuisance".
