The bodies of two people and a 3-year-old child were found late Sunday afternoon by firefighters responding to an outbreak of fire in a house in Nogent-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) , we learned from corroborating sources.
The "
low intensity
"
fire
was extinguished when the firefighters arrived, captain Philippe Schupp, from the Paris firefighters communication office, told AFP.
The firefighters carried out clearing operations.
An investigation for "
research of the causes of death
" was opened, declared the public prosecutor's office of Créteil, requested by AFP. The scientific police services and the Nogent-sur-Marne police station are in charge of the investigations, the public prosecutor added.
"
What worries me is whether the fire was accidental or criminal,
" Jacques JP Martin, the mayor of this town of more than 30,000 inhabitants south of Paris, told AFP. astonished that "
the neighborhood did not notice it
". The "
very small place of life
" was "
in a state of significant dilapidation
", explained a source familiar with the matter, who specified that no track was privileged for the moment.
