He turned pale and immediately rushed to the firefighters, screaming that it was arson, that his wife was a criminal. The firefighters called the police, and within minutes a young policewoman approached him.
“She set the house on fire!” ” he almost shouted. “You have to arrest her!”
The policewoman looked at him coldly.
“Sir, your wife contacted us earlier. She was in shock and told us that you threw her out into the street while she was pregnant and brought her to the hotel in the middle of the night. There’s CCTV footage. There are witnesses. There’s a complaint from doctors who documented her stress and the risk of pregnancy. Furthermore, after the divorce, half of this house was supposed to go to her.”
He fell silent. The policewoman continued:
“She said you threatened to force her out of the house you were jointly paying for. And she asked for protection. That’s why she was brought to a safe place. As for the fire…”
She looked at the charred walls and the noise of the firefighters.
“The fire started because of a short circuit. A wire in the old wiring burned through. It wasn’t arson.”
The husband fell to his knees, his voice gone.
The policewoman added, leaning a little closer: