It would be an accidental fire. The origin of the death of a couple and a 3-year-old child in a Val-de-Marne pavilion in mid-August, which we did not know if it was criminal or accidental, would be due to a fire start accidental, according to the Créteil prosecutor’s office.
The bodies of these three people were found on August 15 in the late afternoon by firefighters in a home in Nogent-sur-Marne which they owned, “dilapidated and rather poorly maintained,” said the prosecution. According to autopsies, the victims were asphyxiated as a result of the fire. No other type of lesion was found on the bodies.
A fire starting near the water heater in the house would be at the origin of the tragedy, “either by failure of this device, or because of a badly extinguished cigarette (an ashtray was discovered overturned on the sofa in below the water heater), or due to a faulty socket also below the water heater, ”said the prosecution.