Three bodies, which could be those of a woman and her two children, were found in a house destroyed on Saturday by a fire in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), indicated Sunday May 1 the parquet floor of Créteil to AFP, confirming information from the
Parisian
.
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The father, a 57-year-old man, was taken into police custody on Saturday evening before being hospitalized on Sunday in a psychiatric unit, the prosecution said.
According to a source familiar with the matter, this man could be suffering from Diogenes syndrome: he accumulated very large quantities of waste and belongings in his home which helped to spread the fire.
The fire took three hours to be brought under control on Saturday evening.
A hundred firefighters and thirty machines were mobilized.
Three charred bodies were found in the rubble on Sunday.
It could be those of the mother and the two children.
An investigation has been opened for arson, but the exact circumstances in which the fire broke out are still unclear.
According to the first findings of the firefighters, it could be a garbage fire that would have spread to vehicles and then to the pavilion where the family lived.
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne.
