The discovery had frozen the emergency services on August 15 at the end of the day.
The death of a couple, Wissem and Laëtitia and their son, Enzo, 3, in a house in Nogent-sur-Marne, is believed to be due to an accidental fire.
According to the first elements of the autopsies, the victims died of suffocation due to the fire.
No other type of lesion was detected on the bodies of the three victims.
“The room in which they were was well closed, indicated Jacques JP Martin, the mayor (LR) of this commune of more than 30,000 inhabitants, at the time of the facts.
They were probably sleeping, a fire broke out and the smoke produced suffocated them.
We know that in such a case, it can go very quickly.
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Housing "dilapidated and poorly maintained"
According to the Créteil prosecutor's office, which entrusted the investigation to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne, the couple owned this accommodation, "dilapidated and rather poorly maintained". At the origin of the incident, the fire would have started near the water heater, "either by failure of this device, or because of a badly extinguished cigarette (an ashtray was discovered overturned on the sofa below the heater). water), or due to a faulty outlet also below the water heater, ”as the same source clarified to AFP.
"The municipal police officers were in the process of carrying out an islanding operation when they noticed that there was something wrong with this place", detailed Jacques JP Martin.
The firefighters had then invested the premises.
After discovering many charred objects, the firefighters fell on the three bodies.
From Tunisia, Wissem's mother understood before everyone else that something serious had happened.
"He called her every day," specified in our columns, his uncle.
And there, he hadn't done it for a week.
"Wissem was" a former professional player.
He played in Tunisia at Menzel Bourguiba's club.
He subsequently became a trainer, ”his uncle had specified the day after the discovery of the tragedy.
