The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

After the hate tags, the offices of the HLM office in Ivry-sur-Seine ravaged by a fire

2021-04-14T08:49:48.067Z


The fire broke out around 4 a.m. on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday and caused significant damage to the offices of the OPDHLM.


A fire devastated during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, shortly after 4 a.m., part of the premises of the Office public des HLM (OPDHLM) of Ivry-sur -Seine, located on the floors of the Jeanne- center. Hachette, in the heart of downtown.

The damage was extensive, more than 100 m2 of offices were destroyed: documents, files and equipment went up in smoke.

The upper floor of the burned-out offices, also dedicated to the OPDHLM, is completely blackened by smoke.

An investigation has been opened.

The technical and scientific police are currently on site to try to determine the origin of the incident.

The criminal hypothesis is not ruled out.

Hateful tags

A source close to the investigation confides that "hate tags have been inscribed in recent days on the walls of the OPDHLM".

Police are trying to find out if a link can be made to the fire.

They are trying to reconstruct the unfolding of the facts and have been collecting testimonies from residents since Tuesday morning.

Early accounts suggest that the fire could have been declared intentionally.

An inhabitant of this building made up of offices, shops and homes, reports having heard around 4 a.m. a broken glass break.

“A few moments later, I saw two male figures quickly descending the exterior stairs from the terraces and fleeing in two opposite directions.

When I phoned the night security post shortly after to warn, the fire alarm had just gone off. ”

A testimony that could be compared to that of an employee of the BTP design office, also installed in the Jeanne-Hachette center.

Two prowlers seen by a witness

“Yesterday between 5 pm and 5:30 pm approximately,” he explains, “I saw two young men in their thirties who were prowling on the terraces, they tried to enter ours.

Were they scouting?

It intrigued me, they were watching through the windows, their behavior was intriguing, in the four years that I have worked here, I had never seen this.

They stayed five to ten minutes, no more. ”

This Tuesday at 9 am, the Paris fire brigade (BSPP) was still on site, removing as many burnt objects as possible to ensure that the fire could not resume.

"We also need to pump the water which has flooded part of the building, due to the sprinklers (

Editor's note: automatic fire safety system

) which have been triggered", specified the commander of the emergency operations of the BSPP.

Water damage indeed damaged the vast Gérard Philipe municipal hall, located on the ground floor.

A flagship architectural building

The mayor (PCF) Philippe Bouyssou went to the scene early this Tuesday morning, joining the director of the OPDHLM, Sabine Christof Beaurianne, who could only see the damage.

Newsletter The essential of 94

A tour of the news of Val-de-Marne and the IDF

Subscribe to the newsletterAll newsletters

"The alert was given by one of the inhabitants who warned the security station," she explains, observing, appalled, the state of her offices which house nearly 70 employees during the day.

I don't understand, our electrical installation was compliant, it had been reviewed again a short time ago. ”

Last summer, on the night of July 14 to 15 at around 3 a.m., a previous fire ravaged the Marat car park, located near the Jeanne-Hachette center.

The fire had started in the first basement of the underground car park.

Very large means had been deployed to overcome it and three firefighters had been injured.

The Jeanne-Hachette center is a flagship building in downtown Ivry-sur-Seine.

Built in the 1970s by the architect Jean Renaudie, it is included on the list of remarkable heritage of the twentieth century.

Source: leparis

All news articles on 2021-04-14

You may like

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.