Paris Apartment Fire Death Toll Rises to 10, Including Young Moroccan Woman

Meriem Erainat had not given any news since this catastrophe caused by a woman with a psychiatric history (over a trivial neighborhood dispute) who, according to the French media, had left the psychiatric hospital just four days before the tragedy.

It took, according to Atlasinfo, for the victim’s mother to go to Paris for a DNA sample to identify her daughter’s body. And so far the justice system has only been able to identify six of the ten people killed in the fire.

The unusually violent fire in this building located on Rue Erlanger in the 16th arrondissement of the French capital left ten dead and about thirty injured. It is the deadliest fire in Paris since the one on August 26, 2005 which, also of criminal origin, had killed 17 people (including 14 children) in the 13th arrondissement.

Essia B., the arsonist, in her forties, was involved in 2016 in a procedure concerning the arson of clothing in a store and another for a misdemeanor of violence. She would have been hospitalized 13 times for psychiatric reasons at the Sainte-Anne hospital between 2009 and 2019.