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Article: French police detain woman in connection with Paris hotel fire
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- April 18, 2005
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VERENA VON DERSCHAU, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-18-2005
Dateline: PARIS
French police detained a woman Monday in connection with a fire in a Paris hotel last week that killed 22 people, half of them children, judicial officials said.
The woman, identified as the girlfriend of one of the hotel's night watchmen, was taken into custody early Monday, three days after the Paris Opera hotel burned down.
The origins of the fire remained unknown. Investigators still favored the theory of an accident but wanted to question the woman over her whereabouts at the time of the fire, judicial officials said on customary condition of anonymity. Police could hold her up to 48 hours.
The hotel, ...