Courchevel's Fire: the Trial of the Man Suspected of Being the Incendiary

Dozens of civil parties faced for the first time this Monday the man accused of burning the building where two people died in 2019.

This Monday, the trial of the main suspect in the arson of a building at the Courchevel mountain station opens in front of the Assize Court of La Savoie. Raphaël Maillochon reminds us of what happened that night from January 19 to 20, 2019. (Police, justice and other facts).

The fire had cost the lives of two seasonal women in the ski resort in 2019. Hicham Abderraouf, who had voluntarily set fire to their home on Monday, will try to convince the assize court of his innocence.

The disaster occurred on 20 January 2019 shortly after 4:00 in the morning at Isba, a residence housing dozens of seasonal workers in the very crowded ski resort of Courchevel (Savoie). Two of them, a 32-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man, employed in restaurants

Hicham Abderraouf, a drug dealer who lived in the Grande-Motte, denies having lit the fire that ravaged the Isba building, on December 20, 2019, in the ski resort of Savoie where he came from, despite his love...

It is certainly the trial of the year that begins this Monday before the Court of Assizes of Savoy in Chambéry. The trial of Hicham Abderraouf, 28, accused of having set fire to a seasonal residence in Courchevel on January 20, 2019. Two seasonals died in the fire.