More hope in Marseille, where the last two bodies trapped in the rubble of the building blown up by an explosion on Sunday were found on Wednesday, after four days of research, bringing the final toll of this tragedy to eight dead, probably due to a leak. gas.
Marion Blox and Mickaël Lequeux, the 30-year-old couple on the 2nd floor; Anna Sinapi and Jacky Morand, the octogenarian couple on the ground floor thus join the list of eight inhabitants of this building at 17 rue de Tivoli, in the lively district of Camas, blown Sunday at 00:46, in the middle of the weekend Easter. On Tuesday, the scientific police had already been able to identify Nicole Gacon, 65, who lived on the ground floor; Antoinietta Alaimo, wife Vaccaro, 88 years old, resident of the first floor; and finally Jacques and Anne-Marie Praxy, both 74 years old, the last couple on the 3rd floor.
“Tonight Marseille is in mourning. Eight of his children died. It’s a tragedy for the whole city, ”reacted the mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan, announcing that the clearing operations would continue until Thursday evening.
To the scar of the rue d’Aubagne, where eight people had perished in 2018 in the collapse of an unsanitary building, is therefore added this new wound, just a few hundred meters away. With the same terrible record.