A woman was hospitalized in absolute emergency after a fire of deliberate origin which also caused the evacuation of 19 residents on Sunday morning in Poitiers (F), in a district where several anti-drug operations have taken place recently, it was reported. learned from consistent sources.
Shortly after 6 a.m., four fires were reported, “including three trash fires and a fire at the entrance to the building lobby,” at a location where six burned shopping carts and a “partially damaged” scooter were found. said the Poitiers public prosecutor, Cyril Lacombe, in a press release, confirming information from the local daily La Nouvelle République.
The fire spread very quickly to the apartments on four floors. The residents were shouting “help”, according to witnesses met on site by an AFP correspondent.
Nineteen residents were evacuated by the 70 firefighters mobilized on site. A 75-year-old woman was burned to the respiratory tract and evacuated in absolute emergency by Samu to the emergency room of Poitiers University Hospital, according to firefighters who also reported three children and an adult in relative emergency.
In the middle of the afternoon, the woman remained hospitalized “for smoke poisoning”, according to the prosecutor. The victims found refuge in a local public school.
A flagrant investigation was opened “for acts of destruction of property by means dangerous to people”, according to Mr. Lacombe, who entrusted the investigations to the services of the Poitiers police station. The scientific police have already taken samples on site.
The Trois Cités district has been the subject, for several months, of constant attention from the police services as part of the dismantling of drug trafficking.
Twice this fall, arrests and searches took place, on October 22 and November 6. According to several sources met on site, the bottom of the burned building served as a deal point until its dismantling last summer.
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