The mystery is cleared up after the fatal fire which claimed the life of a 14-year-old schoolgirl early Monday morning in Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerc’h in Finistère. On the night of the tragedy, five teenagers aged 14 to 16 would have spent part of the night in an unoccupied house belonging to an acquaintance after entering it through the window.
Around 6 a.m., “one of them would have, for undetermined reasons, deliberately set fire to the house while all of his companions were outside”, specifies in a press release Carine Halley, public prosecutor of Quimper.
As the pavilion burst into flames, the teenager reportedly returned inside to retrieve an object she had forgotten. She would then have found herself trapped by the flames. According to the results of the autopsy, the schoolgirl died “as a result of asphyxiation following the fire. »
One of the minors in the psychiatric unit
After the tragedy, the four other minors present at the scene were taken into custody before being released Monday during the day. One of them, “whose state of health was deemed incompatible with police custody” was “treated in a psychiatric unit”, specifies the Quimper prosecutor’s office, which relinquished the case in favor of the criminal section of the Brest court.
Judicial information against X will be opened for willful destruction of the property of others by dangerous means resulting in death. “A crime punishable by life imprisonment,” said Carine Halley.