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Four days after the tragedy that killed eight people in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the criminal trail is still being considered.
The perimeter of the area affected by the fire which broke out overnight from Sunday to Monday in a building in the heart of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque (Pyrénées-Orientales), killing eight people, was completely cordoned off by the police. Behind the black tarpaulins stretched across the street, we can barely see the firefighters and soldiers who are working to secure the places devastated by the tragedy. Since Wednesday, half a dozen investigators from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie have been hard at work carrying out investigations inside the buildings. These experts joined the 140 soldiers already engaged in the field since Monday.
Jean-David Cavaillé, the public prosecutor of Perpignan, opened an investigation for “arson resulting in death” and predicted that it was going to be complex. In the press conference he held on Tuesday evening, he admitted that it was not yet known whether the fire preceded the explosion or the reverse, and considered that it would be necessary “at least three to four days of work for the experts to understand what happened”. And repeated that it was necessary “consider a track that may be criminal”.
“A Quiet Town”
Residents of this portion of rue Arago all had to leave their homes. Certainly…