Everything suggests that the explosion that occurred Saturday, in the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris, is of accidental origin. According to the first elements of the police investigation, "a cigarette lit immediately after the use of an aerosol" would be at the origin of the explosion that injured five Saturday afternoon around 14:30 pm at 26, rue du Nord (XVIIIth), said Monday the Paris prosecutor's office.
The inappropriate use of a cleaning product or mosquito spray in this furnished hotel would therefore have caused the disaster. "This track remains to be confirmed," warns however the prosecutor's office, which has opened "an investigation of flagrance, on the count of unintentional injuries followed by incapacity of more than three months".
The inhabitants received this Monday by the municipality
This Monday in the early evening, the prefecture of police was not able to communicate the conclusions of the analyzes of the laboratory supposed to determine the causes of the disaster. Spectacularly, the explosion literally blew the façade of the third floor which was projected on the roadway, leaving a gaping hole in this five-storey building. Five people were injured in the incident. One of them was treated "in absolute emergency", without his prognosis being engaged.
The inhabitants of this furnished hotel, twenty-one people - "men and women alone, without children" according to Eric Lejoindre, the mayor (PS) of the eighteenth - were rehoused on Saturday in a youth hostel of the eighteenth century. "All were received on Monday by the services of the City. Social landlords and social services are mobilized to find permanent housing for evacuated residents, "says one at the City Hall. The work to secure the building, aimed at "avoiding the tipping of the floors under the attic", will begin "this Tuesday", also announces the municipality.