Palaiseau. Fire breaks out in apartment of man with Diogenes syndrome

The apartment of a tenant suffering from Diogenes syndrome fell prey to flames on Tuesday November 12 in Palaiseau (Essonne), requiring the intervention of around thirty firefighters, reports “Le Parisien”. Many objects had been accumulated by the occupier.

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The residents of the 32 apartments in a building in Palaiseau (Essonne) were evacuated on Tuesday November 12, 2024 in the middle of the afternoon by firefighters who arrived on site to control a fire. The fire started in the home occupied by a 67-year-old man who had stored numerous objects at home, says The Parisian . The sixty-year-old suffers from Diogenes syndrome, a behavioral disorder leading to degraded living conditions and a heterogeneous accumulation of objects.

A single hospitalization

The sixty-year-old was the only tenant to have been taken to hospital, from which he emerged after being treated for smoke inhalation. He was then housed by relatives, indicates the Ile-de-France daily. Many of the other residents of the building found shelter in the hotel or with their family.

Mayor Grégoire de Lasteyrie, however, specified that a city gymnasium had been opened to accommodate 12 tenants, who ate there and spent the night. The intervention of firefighters led to the water, electricity and heating being cut off in the building before power was restored on Wednesday November 13, 2024.

To find out more: read the article in Le Parisien