Twelve people have already been sentenced to sentences of up to two years in prison and “more than a dozen” are found in pre-trial detentionaccording to this provisional balance of the gendarmes.
The spokeswoman for the national gendarmerie, Marie-Laure Pezantspecified that the detainees are from “all social origins” and that there are “young people, minors, retirees, mostly men“Some have psychological problems, “sometimes mental disorders”, and there are also “some” firefighters, but “they are not the majority”, added the lieutenant colonel.
Based on medical examinations, the investigation seeks to determine who they are arsonists and therefore have a pathological tendency to provoke them, and who did it for other reasons.
More than 65,000 hectares of forests had burned in France as of September 17, including 50,000 since mid-June, said the European Forest Fire Information System (Effis).
The area burned is the largest recorded since 2006, when satellite data began to be used.
The department of Gironde (southwest) was particularly affected with 30,000 hectares burned in various areas south of Bordeaux, one of them around the tourist Dune du Pilat, the highest in Europe.
Source: Ambito
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