The judicial information was also opened on the counts of “deliberate degradation by fire resulting in total incapacity for work of more than 8 days and willful degradation by fire resulting in total incapacity for work of less than 8 days”, a-t-t he added in a statement.
“The investigations will therefore continue from now on under the authority of two investigating magistrates from Lyons co-seized at the request of the public prosecutor’s office“, we said from the same source.
“On the merits, the prosecution confirms that no investigation hypothesis is either favored or discarded and that it is simply a question of continuing the investigations under the authority of these magistrates.“, told AFP the public prosecutor of Lyon, Nicolas Jacquet.
On Sunday, the Lyon public prosecutor’s office told AFP that among the ten victims who died in the disaster were six adults and four children.
A previous toll reported five minors among the ten dead. Twenty-four people were also injured in the fire, four of them seriously.
The prosecution added that no arrests had taken place since the opening of the investigation for “deliberate damage by fire resulting in death”.
“The investigation is actively continuing.“, he had concluded.
Saturday evening, the same prosecution had announced, in a press release, the identification of all the deceased victims, without further details.
He had indicated that the expertise still had no permit “to determine whether the origin of the fire (was) intentional or accidental”.
“No trace of flammable product detected”
“No trace of flammable product was detected in the samples taken from the scene of the incident”he had further clarified.
The fire occurred at 3 a.m. Friday in a seven-storey building, located in a working-class district undergoing urban renewal.
The fire had prompted residents to rush into the void, a woman having even thrown her son from the fourth floor to save his life, before jumping herself from her balcony, according to testimonies collected by AFP.