This is the end of a macabre count. The Marseille prosecutor’s office reported, Wednesday, April 12, a “final report” of eight dead in the rubble of the building destroyed by an explosion which occurred on Sunday at 17 rue de Tivoli. After the identification of the first four bodies, “Three victims were identified late yesterday afternoon” And “a last victim was identified today, also at the end of the afternoon”said the prosecution.
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The track of the explosion due to the privileged gas. “The elements, all converging, collected at this stage of the investigation confirm the hypothesis of an explosion due to the gas having caused the collapse of the building”, reports the prosecution. Only the apartments on the ground floor and the 1st floor were equipped with gas. As for the investigation, the Marseille prosecutor’s office confirmed that a complaint against X for manslaughter had been filed by Bruno Sinapi, the son of a couple in their eighties who lived on the ground floor.
Consolidation works. The weakening of the infrastructures caused by the shock of the collapse forced the firefighters to carry out a “emergency consolidation action” with “shotcrete” on the walls of the adjacent buildings still standing, at numbers 11 and 19 of the street.
More than 300 people evacuated. A total of 302 residents were evacuated, according to Yannick Ohanessian, deputy mayor of Marseille in charge of the battalion of marine firefighters and security. “For 89 of them, including 12 minors, we have set up accommodation solutions in hotels in the city”said the elected official on Tuesday evening, the others having “Choose to stay with family or friends”.