The tribute promises to be followed.
After the dramatic fire which left ten dead among the inhabitants of a building in Vaulx-en-Velin, in the suburbs of Lyon (Rhône) on the night of Thursday to Friday, a tribute will be paid this Saturday afternoon at 15 hours in front of the city hall.
According to the municipality, quoted by BFMTV, the tribute will take place at Place de la Nation in front of the town hall of Vaulx-en-Velinn and a book of condolences will be made available at the town hall.
“There is a need to be together.
We are a popular city and we need to express our sorrow and our pain collectively, ”comments the mayor, Hélène Geoffroy, at the microphone of BFM Lyon.
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The fire killed ten people, including five children, and injured 24, four of them seriously.
Thirty-eight families, or a hundred people, are in "urgent need of relocation" after this "tragic" fire, said the metropolis of Lyon in a press release.
“Without the speed of the firefighters and their heroism, there would have been an even more dramatic toll,” said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who came on site with Housing Minister Olivier Klein.
The emergency services "were able to save 15 people by taking considerable risks for their own lives, by climbing the building from the outside because you could not enter from the inside and by saving children, babies up to the 7th floor “, he detailed.
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The flames spread from the ground floor of the seven-storey building located in a popular district undergoing urban renewal.
Residents rushed into the void, a mother even threw her son from the fourth floor to save him before jumping from her balcony herself.
The Lyon public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation to determine the causes of the fire, specifying that it will not rule out any hypothesis, "in particular the criminal track".
In the evening, the investigators were still working to "identify with certainty the ten deceased persons", according to the same source.