The day after the death of his mother, a five-year-old child, seriously burned on Friday January 17 in an arson attack in Miramas (Bouches-du-Rhône), died in turn from his injuries on Saturday night. until Sunday, we learned from the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor.
“Five-year-old boy died last night“, declared to AFP the public prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon. Four members of the same family, the parents and their two 5-year-old twins, had been burned to different degrees during the night from Thursday to Friday in the fire in their apartment, located on the ground floor of a seven-story building in Miramas, about sixty km northwest of Marseille.
The 41-year-old mother died of her injuries on Saturday in hospital. The state of health of the little girl, still hospitalized, “no longer inspires worry“, specified the prosecutor. The father, burned on the face and hands according to the firefighters, was able to leave the hospital.
The investigation is still ongoing
“The first investigations made it possible to conclude with certainty that the fire was of criminal origin.the prosecutor declared on Saturday, estimating that the family’s apartment was “target“.
-He did not give any information on the motives which could have pushed the arsonist(s) to target this family. “The investigation is still ongoing“, he insisted, believing that it was a “crime of absolute seriousness“.
The investigation into homicides, attempted homicides by an organized gang and arson by an organized gang was entrusted to the judicial police.
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