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Witnesses reportedly intervened to try to spray the victim with water. Despite attempts at resuscitation by emergency services, the 28-year-old man died.
Blankets and ice cubes
“I’ve never seen that,” breathes Mohamed, a resident of this residential development where “everyone knows each other.” On Rue des Bougainvilliers, most residents confide, when they feel able to testify, that they have not “slept all night”. This is the case of Mohamed who seems to have tried everything to help the man who came out of his vehicle in flames.
“We did everything necessary,” he confirms modestly. I put several blankets, ice cubes, too. But it was too late. I'm still shocked. I didn't sleep all night. Neither does my daughter. She was scared because she saw me next to this burning man. I saw his eyes. » Mohamed is still traumatized too. The police, however, repeated to him that he had done everything he could.
Most residents of the street say they did not sleep all night, shocked by what they witnessed on Sunday evening.
M. Zirnheld
“Like a log”
“I have never seen anything like this, it was horror! » says Solange, 75 years old. She remembers that she had started watching “The Big Mop” on television when she was alerted by screams in the street and “this glow” that tore through the night. “There were flames going very high,” she describes. This is confirmed by the charred palm tree next to where the vehicle was parked. According to some witnesses, the driver was already “in flames” when he arrived in this residential area.
Solange didn't sleep last night either. She remembers the terrible images of the evening. “I don’t know how he got out of his car. He sat against another car. He was like a log, completely stiff. My neighbor did everything he could. But this poor young man died in the ambulance. »
The Pau public prosecutor's office simply confirmed this Monday that it had opened an investigation into homicide, entrusted to the judicial police. For the moment, the circumstances of the tragedy are completely unknown, and no lead is favored. The man did not live there and was apparently unknown to the police.
