a man dies under the flames of his own house

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The night of Christmas Eve was tragic in the Tarn-et-Garonne. A 45-year-old man died in a fire in Castelmayran, chemin Saint-Couflan, near Castelsarrasin.

A suicidal person

According to information from La Dépêche du MidithatToulouse News is able to confirm, the man in his forties succumbed to the flames in his own house, after threatened to burn it down.

Because this drama grew slowly, over the hours. Tuesday December 24, 2024, the Castelsarrasin company gendarmes were called by the medical staff – who were following the victim – around 4:30 p.m. “We had a report for a suicidal person », Specify the gendarmes.

The victim had a weapon

And somewhat reckless too… “He had locked himself in his house. Everything was blocked. And he exhibited a armed », Indicate the soldiers. Gate closed, car as a shield, shutters closed. Everything was compartmentalized.

Him too. “We tried to get in touch with it. In vain,” sighs a sourceToulouse news. Around 7:30 p.m., the Castelsarrasin gendarmerie company broke camp “on the visible part”, she specifies. But fixed patrols remain all night.

The forty-year-old's house burns down in the night

Rightly so. A few hours later, the gendarmes saw a thick smokeget out of the roof. It was around 12:30 a.m. “The fire must certainly have been smoldering since 5 p.m.,” estimates our source.

The firefighters, who had already intervened at the end of the afternoon, then returned to the scene at 1 a.m. and this time remained, until 6:30 a.m. Around fifteen firefighters to contain the flames and put out the fire that was burning the house from top to bottom. “The roof collapsed. The conflagration was widespread,” explains the SDIS of Tarn-et-Garonne.

An open investigation

Through the debris, the body of the suicidal forty-year-old, and drug userwas found.

The circumstances of his death remain to be determined. Criminal Identification Technicians (TIC) are on site this Christmas Day. Had it really sounded the death knell?

An investigation is openalthough “we assume that he set the house on fire since he had threatened to do so”, concludes Sdis 82.

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