A judicial investigation for manslaughter will be opened to determine the causes of the fatal collapse of a building in Sanary-sur-Mer (Var), which killed three people on December 7 after a gas explosion, learned the 'AFP Wednesday, December 15 with the prosecutor's office in Toulon.
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A judicial investigation for manslaughter will be opened during the day, to determine the causes of the gas leak
" which caused the explosion, said the interim prosecutor of Toulon, Dominique Mirkovic, to AFP, confirming a Nice Matin information.
The investigation will make it possible to verify, among other things, whether this leak is linked "
to a lack of maintenance of Gaz network distribution de France (GRDF) or to the voluntary act of a person who wanted to kill himself
", specified Dominique Mirkovic.
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GRDF had carried out a check in October which had not found an anomaly
", underlined the magistrate about this building which was connected to town gas.
Three dead and five injured
The building, located in the port of Sanary-sur-Mer, collapsed in the middle of the night on December 7 after an explosion due to a gas leak.
A woman and her baby had been pulled alive from the rubble in the morning.
The father, in his thirties, was deceased.
The bodies of a 91-year-old woman and her 58-year-old son were found in the rubble the next day, bringing the death toll to three.
The explosion, heard up to eight kilometers, left five injured in total, including three people living in neighboring buildings affected very slightly.