The family home caught fire on Saturday April 26, in a farmhouse in the Grafenbourg district in Brumath. The mother then managed to get out of the flames with her 3 -year -old youngest. But his three other daughters aged 6, 10 and 12 are trapped upstairs. About fifty firefighters are mobilized to rescue them and extinguish the fire whose black fumes are visible for miles. But Ecrin-Sena, 12, and Hatice, 10, died at the Strasbourg University Hospital, the youngest, Melek, 6, the next evening. According to the first elements of the investigation, the fire may have been caused by a failure of a refrigerator.