Faced with the severity of fires in Patagonia, he Government Nacional announced that eCongress will nviar a project to aggravate penalties of those who cause Intentional fires. They will seek to treat it in extraordinary. At the moment there are two detainees. The flames affect more than 70 thousand hectares of the Andean region.
The Minister of Justice, Mariano Cneo Libarona, He announced Monday that the libertarian administration will take a proposal to Parliament for Increase criminal punishment against those who are found guilty of generating fires intentionally.
“We will include in extraordinary sessions a project to aggravate the penalty of those who cause fires intentionally, eliminating the possibility of release“The lawyer said through his account in the social network” X “, amid the criticisms of the National Government for the lack of reaction to fires in the south of the country.
Regarding the possible involved in the origin of the fires, the minister accused “Terrorists disguised as Mapuches”, who, he said, “set our Patagonia fire to extort the government and claim privileges.” “They will pay behind bars,” he closed.
The initiative was proposed by President Javier Milei and will be included in the extraordinary sessions carried out by the Legislative Power. In addition to the increase in convictions and the character of excarcerable crime, it also includes aggravating when forests, plantations or ecosystems are affected. And when the objective of the fire is to intimidate the government.
The penalty for those who begin fires is 3 to 10 years in prison, but if the fire generates danger of death or kills, it amounts to a maximum of 20 years. If the project is approved, the penalties will be 4 to 12 years in minimum and up to 25 years of maximum.
Fires advance in Patagonia
So far, the Justice of Río Negro keeps a man under the accusation of “tentative fire”. The suspect, named Nicolás Heredia, Neuquino, 31, was arrested on February 5 at the confluence of the Azul and Bravo rivers.
During the audience last Friday, Heredia asked to declare and said not to be involved In the generation of fires. “That day I was taking the kids of the Pozones, who are in a campsite above,” he said, the Río Negro newspaper reported.
When he went down he had food in his backpack, among which there were sandwiches and fruits, he said. And he explained that they were inputs to take to the area where he provided collaboration to the effects of fires. There he was intercepted by two municipal workers who took him to a truck and stopped him.
“They were both and they ask me what I was doing and I told them that I was waiting for the other boys from the pozons and there they tell me, it does not go up to the truck that we take to Wharton and there they stop and throw me a bottle with gasoline,” He added to his statement. In his speech, Heredia appointed one of the current workers mayor of El Bolsón, Bruno Pogliano, Former British businessman Joe Lewis.
After finishing the hearing, the judge formulated the charges and agreed to the request of the Prosecutor’s Office to order the preventive detention. In addition, he put four months to finish the investigation.
Days ago, six people, five women and one man had also been arrested, all of them residents of the town of Lake Puelo, dedicated to bioconstruction and community work. They were accused by the Prosecutor’s Office of provoking an intentional fire on February 2 in a farm of Drowned mallin. The news generated outrage among citizens and in the absence of evidence they were released.
The second detainee, named Jorge Hermosilla, is a native of El Bolsón. He is accused of having tried to start a fire focus in a wooded area of the city on February 8.
So far, the fires have affected more than 70 thousand hectares of the Andean region, among the active spotlights in the provinces of Chubut, Río Negro and Neuquén.
In El Bolsón (Río Negro), more than 4,000 hectares suffer the impact of the flames, while in the Nahuel Huapí National Park (Río Negro and Neuquén) they consumed more than 11 thousand hectares. In the Lanin National Park (Neuquén), the fire affects more than 15 thousand hectares and in Epuyén (Chubut) there are focal assets in more than 3500 hectares.
In Puerto Madryn, a fire devastated 35 thousand hectares until he was suffocated.
Source: Ambito
