Overview
- The blaze broke out on March 11 on the fourth floor of 13 rue du Faubourg‑Montmartre in the 9th arrondissement and spread to the fifth and sixth floors.
- Authorities confirmed one fatality, a man born in 1973 found on the sixth floor, and three people in critical condition from smoke inhalation.
- Roughly 100 Paris firefighters contained the fire at about 18:10, then kept the building under surveillance into the evening.
- A judicial investigation has been opened and assigned to the 9th‑arrondissement police, with experts examining the fire’s origin and securing common areas.
- Investigators are prioritizing a hypothesis that the fire started from inadequately secured renovation work in a studio, while local reporting named the victim as Ramdan, 53, and said his parents and sister were among the seriously intoxicated.