This is the blind spot of the matter. However, the question is essential to understand how 11 people died in the fire of an undeclared gîte in Wintzenheim (Haut-Rhin) in August 2023. What did the town hall know? Could she have been unaware that a farm building had been transformed into a home? The town planning documents that Liberation was able to consult show that the municipality has given its agreement for the work leaving little room for doubt as to the intentions of the owner: to transform this building into housing in defiance of the law.
August 9, 2023, in Wintzenheim, in Haut-Rhin. Around 6:30 a.m., flames devoured a lodge located at a place called La Forge. Inside, 28 people, most of them on vacation, disabled adults who paid 1,900 euros for their adapted stay. 17 got out on time, the others did not: 10 disabled vacationers and one supervisor died.
Very quickly, the safety of the building was called into question. The Colmar public prosecutor’s office opens an investigation “for homicide and involuntary injuries aggravated by the violation of an obligation of safety or prudence” (the procedure being still ongoing, the accused are presumed innocent). This lodge “had not undergone the passage of the security commission”indicates deputy prosecutor Nathalie Ki
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