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Saturday morning, a suspicious fire broke out in an uninhabited house in Ossun. The third in a few months…
During the night from Friday to Saturday, around 3:30 a.m., firefighters responded to a violent fire in a residential house located in the center of Ossun, right next to the church. When they arrived, the roof was completely engulfed in flames and they were only able to save the walls and prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring houses.
The 3rd fire in 2024!
Luckily, the house was not occupied, it has not been for several years, after the death of its owner, a former judge, but the succession is not completed. The Ossun town hall made it known some time ago that it wanted to acquire it, but the matter is dragging on… The fact remains that this fire is suspicious to say the least. How can a house, completely uninhabited, catch fire spontaneously? Especially since this is not the first time, a local resident reveals that two other fires took place last spring. “The strangest thing is that they happened the same night, at different times, in two places in the house,” he testifies, “the firefighters had to come twice! » An investigation was then opened by the gendarmerie. Should we think that the house is regularly squatted, which would explain these surprising fires? A new investigation was opened by the Ossun gendarmerie, with the reinforcement of the Tarbes BR and the criminal identification team, which made findings throughout the day.
