Woman gets 3-year jail for devastating blaze in Paris
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A French court yesterday sentenced a young woman to three years in jail for a 2005 fire that ripped through a Paris hotel killing 24 people, including 11 children.
The inferno gutted the Paris-Opera Hotel in April 2005.
The hotel, which housed many struggling immigrant families, was located just behind the upmarket Galeries Lafayette department store.
“Your characteristic carelessness directly caused the death of 24 people,” the judge told Fatima Tahrour. “It is highly probable that at the very least you were aware that the fire had started.”
The woman has admitted accidentally causing the fire when in a fit of anger she flung her clothes on candles on the floor and then left the building.
Tahrour, her then-boyfriend Nabil Dekali who was the nightwatchman on duty the night of the blaze, and his parents who managed the building, went on trial in November.
Dekali had taken cocaine and alcohol and is accused of not contacting firemen immediately and trying to douse the flames himself. The court sentenced Dekali to two years in prison, with one year suspended. His mother was acquitted but the father was served a three-year term, with one year suspended.
The judges ruled the father was “perfectly aware of the son’s drug addiction and therefore aware of the danger of putting him in charge of surveillance of a hotel that was overpopulated.”
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