The gondola fell to the ground and passengers were catapulted out of two nearby cable cars police said
The gondola fell to the ground and passengers were catapulted out of two nearby cable cars, police said. Three days later, another fire killed seven in a building used by squatters.The Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, suggested on French television that copycats might be at work. The toll of Sunday's fire rose to 16 after a man died in hospital Five people were being treated for serious injuries Two Italians, a mother and daughter, were among the dead The suspects were aged 15, 16, 17 and 18. A fifth girl taken in for questioning was later released.The fire was believed to have raged up a stairwell and climbed at least three floors in the 19-storey building. Some residents jumped from windows.Police were investigating whether arsonists started the fire on 26 August which killed 14 African children and three adults in a run-down apartment building. "I'm speechless, revolted," he said, adding: "We now see it was really more a problem of incivility than of criminal acts."The fire was the third deadly blaze in the Paris area in nine days, killing a total of at least 64 people.
At least three of the teenagers confessed to starting the blaze that began in the lobby mailroom. They had lit it to settle scores with a former friend, the officials said. "This is really the kind of event that leaves you flabbergasted," the town's Mayor, Patrick Seve, told France-Inter radio. Four girls were to appear before a judge today in connection with the fire in L'Hay-les-Roses which killed 13 adults and three children in the early hours of Sunday. An argument between teenage girls appeared to be the motive for an arson attack on an apartment block in the suburbs of Paris which killed 16 people, officials said. It was taken to the Munch Museum in Oslo and examined by Munch scholars there, who believe it was probably painted in 1898 or 1899. The painting, which depicts a young woman seated on a chair, with the faces of four men looming in the background, differs slightly from the artist's style at the time.
But a museum officials said they had concluded the the work was genuine.. The painting was discovered after a worker at the Kunsthalle Bremen museum, in northern Germany, removed a known piece by the Norwegian painter from its frame. The previously unknown work, entitled The Girl and the Four Male Heads", lay underneath. Art historians believe a painting found in a little-known German museum is a hitherto unknown work by Edvard Munch. "He was, of course, a truly great colourist and this is one of his masterpieces.
