The 19-year-old man was indicted and imprisoned, according to a press release from the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office.
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A volunteer firefighter from Gironde was indicted and imprisoned on Sunday August 28. Justice accuses this 19-year-old student of being at the origin of 31 fires which occurred between July 29 and August 21, which earned him to be prosecuted mainly for “destruction by fire of wood, forests, moors, maquis or plantations of others that may cause harm to people”, according to a press release from the public prosecutor of Bordeaux.
Arrested on Friday morning, this young man from Lesparre-en-Médoc (Gironde) and volunteer firefighter in Soulac-sur-mer admitted “partly” his involvement during his police custody, according to the same source. Still according to the prosecution, he then “confirmed his confession” before the examining magistrate who notified him of his indictment on Sunday.
During this summer period, about thirty fires “of a voluntary and criminal nature” had been observed “in a restricted geographical area of northern Médoc”, in Soulac-sur-mer, Le Verdon-sur-mer, Grayant-et-l’Hôpital, Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc and Vensac, according to the prosecution. Nearly 45 gendarmes were mobilized during this period and the investigation carried out by the research brigade of the Lesparre company and the research section of Bordeaux.
The Gironde department was affected this summer by numerous fires including two major ones, in La Teste-de Buch (7,000 hectares in July) and Landiras (13,800 ha in July then 7,400 ha in August after a violent recovery of fire).