Among them, six are in pre -trial detention and four have been sentenced. Three hundred gendarmes were mobilized in “prevention and identification of incendiaries”, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
Le Monde with AFP
While forest fires of an exceptional magnitude have affected part of France for a few months, twenty-six people suspected of being pyroomanes have been arrested since the beginning of the summer, confirmed the ministry of The interior in the world Tuesday August 16. Among them, six are in pre -trial detention and four have been convicted.
“More than three hundred gendarmes were mobilized this summer in prevention and identification of incendiaries”, said the ministry.
The year 2022 is the most affected, in terms of burned surfaces, of the last sixteen years, according to figures from the European Information Information System (Effis), which has been comparable statistics since 2006. This assessment results in particular from the two great successive braziers in Gironde.
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criminal track excluded for “Landiras-2”
In Gironde, three surveys were opened for “criminal” fires that declared themselves in the municipalities of Soulac, Vensac and Blanquefort, according to the public prosecutor, Frédérique Porterie. The criminal thesis is also always privileged concerning the first starts of fire from the Landiras sector, in mid-July. Judicial information was opened from the head of “fire destruction”.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, had also said to suspect that a criminal act is behind the resumption of Landiras fire, which burned 7,400 hectares, because eight very close lights had started the Even morning.
Regarding this resumption of fire, on August 9, “no element allows to lean for a criminal origin,” the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office on Tuesday at the France-Presse (AFP).
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650 firefighters always mobilized in Landiras
Some 650 firefighters are still mobilized Tuesday to neutralize the many hot spots which continued to consume themselves on the perimeter of this vast fire. Of all of the fire soldiers mobilized, almost half is part of the European contingent deployed on the spot within the framework of the European Union civil protection mechanism, created in 2001.
Among them, 146 Polish “Strazacy” made a strong impression by their “very rigorous” work and their 21 vehicles deployed. Also present are 141 “Feuerwehrleute” German and Austrian and 77 “Pompierii” Romanians. An all the more appreciated reinforcement “to provide the maximum security work” before the planned temperature increase next week. In the evening, 21 Polynesian firefighters are also expected on site, soon joined by firefighters from Reunion and Mayotte.
“Our mission now is to turn off the hot spots, continue the work of the edge and secure the tracks to avoid a new resumption of fixed but not controlled fire,” the Lieutenant-Colonel told AFP From Sdis de Gironde, Laurent Pham, specifying that the fire “continues to burn underground, in peaty soil”.