the “privileged criminal thesis” for one of the two fires

“The criminal thesis is privileged” in the investigation into the causes of the Landiras fire, one of the two fires which have already ravaged in Gironde nearly 7,700 hectares of forest since Tuesday, the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office announced on Friday July 15. “In the state of the investigations, the criminal thesis is privileged concerning the fire of Landiras“, said the prosecution, confirming information from South West.

This hypothesis is based in particular on “material findings” technical and scientific police and “testimonials”he explained to AFP, while specifying that “All leads continue to be explored by investigators” and that’“no custody is in progress”. The fire would have started from a roadside according to the account to the investigators of a witness who “saw a fire start and a car leave the scene hastily”said a source close to the file confirmed by the prosecution.

The witness “then tried to go home to get a fire extinguisher but it was too late, he immediately gave the alert”, continued the same source. According to the prosecution, investigators are also wondering about three other “suspicious” fire starts that broke out in the area after the first fire. The investigations were entrusted to the gendarmes of the Langon research brigade in conjunction with the local branch of the Central Office for the fight against attacks on the environment and public health.