By Jean-Marc Aubert
Published on 17 Dec 20 at 10:28
updated on 17 Dec 20 at 11:54
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The fire who ravaged a room of the hotel Strasbourg, early Wednesday morning at Montpellier was of criminal origin. Indeed, the client who occupied it is suspected of having set fire on purpose. He was arrested.
The alert was given on 18, around 6.30am, Wednesday: a strong smell of burning was felt and smoke escaped from a 30 m2 room on the second floor of the hotel located on Boulevard de Strasbourg, near Place Carnot, which has four.
Inhaled toxic fumes
The thirty customers evacuated the scene before the arrival of the firefighters of Sdis 34 on the spot with large means. The fire was brought under control after an hour of fighting and all risk of spread stopped.
They rescued a tenant who inhaled toxic fumes, while the one who occupied the room destroyed by the flames, quite overexcited, made incoherent remarks.
Stool, shelves, flowerpots
Before the arrival of the emergency services and the police, the arsonist in crisis also threw flaming sheets, a stool, a shelf and flowerpots from the balcony, which damaged a car, whose driver was driving, boulevard de Strasbourg. “After receiving these projectiles, I stopped, I got out of my vehicle, it was then that pieces of sheets on fire came close to my head,” says Marine C.
–Psychiatric emergencies
Called by public security police officers and taken to the nearby central police station, he was examined by a doctor who ordered his custody incompatible with his state of health and his admission to psychiatric emergencies at Lapeyronie hospital.
He should be interned. He delivered different and blurry versions to explain his gesture.
The technical and scientific police carried out investigations to isolate the place where the suspect lit the fire, probably in the bedding with a lighter.
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