Nothing remains of the hut fire on Quai Adrien-Agnès in Aubervilliers.
No trace of the flames that ravaged the makeshift shelter where a homeless man slept.
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, around 12:30 a.m., his body was found lifeless in the rubble.
Another person, slightly intoxicated, was rescued.
According to the first findings made by the Paris fire brigade (BSPP), the fire would have taken in a trash can and would have spread to "the precarious installation" where this man had taken up residence.
It was "no more than 10 m²", adds the BSPP.
This Tuesday afternoon, on the quay opposite, the people crossed – migrants – claim not to have noticed anything.
Is the loss of accidental or criminal origin?
As required by procedure, when a person dies in a fire, an investigation into the causes of death is opened.
She was entrusted to the departmental service of the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The victim had not yet been identified as of Tuesday evening.
In the space of a week, the stranger from the Adrien-Agnès quay is the second homeless person to perish in the fire of his shelter in Île-de-France.
On December 14 in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise), a 50-year-old man died in the gate of the former Yoplait site.
He had been found by employees who knew that a man had taken refuge in these old warehouses.
A burning candle was found to be the cause of the accident.
The victim, a father, had settled there after a separation, in these extremely precarious conditions, to be closer to his children.