Woman 'admits causing Paris fire'

[MaineDem]

A woman detained after last week's fire in a Paris hotel which killed 24 people has admitted that she may have started the blaze by accident, police say.

According to the Paris prosecutor's office, the fire started when she threw a pile of clothes on top of candles lit in the breakfast room after a row.

Police identified her as the girlfriend of one of the hotel's night watchmen, who was injured on the night.

"After a violent dispute... she finally left the hotel, throwing several piles of clothes on the floor in a fit of rage, without paying attention to the candles," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4459519.stm

[Tace]

1. Those French Women Are Wonderful... But Serious Tempers

: )

[BeyondGeography]

2. Throw the book at her

<Half of the dead were the children of families in need, who were temporarily housed at the hotel by the city's social services department.>

[Skittles]

3. they need to investigate why the place lit up so quickly too

and why those poor people were not able to escape