The Quimper prosecutor’s office affirms that the investigation is continuing “under the criminal qualification of voluntary destruction by fire of wood, forest, moors, maquis or plantation which can create irreversible damage to the environment”.
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On the trail of an arsonist. The fire which broke out on July 18 in Brasparts, in the Arrée mountains (Finistère), is also of criminal origin, announced Monday, July 25 the Quimper prosecutor’s office. “The expert who examined the Brasparts site concludes that the fire was voluntary”, assures in a press release the public prosecutor of Quimper, Carine Halley. The prosecution had already qualified as “voluntary” the one that had started the same day in Brennilis.
“The investigation is continuing under the direction of the Quimper prosecutor’s office under the criminal qualification of willful destruction by fire of wood, forest, moors, maquis or plantation which may create irreversible damage to the environment”, she adds. The prosecutor announced on Wednesday that she had two investigations into the fires that ravaged the Breton moorland in the Arrée mountains. She had claimed that the two fires “are definitely of human origin” and “the criminal nature of the fire affecting the Brennilis site” is “manifest because of the finding of two fire starts 30 meters apart”.
The Quimper prosecutor has relinquished the investigation into the Brennilis fire in favor of the Brest prosecutor’s office “following examination of the GPS point of the site’s fire start”. This examination revealed that this point was within the jurisdiction of the Brest court. The two fires ravaged 1,771 hectares of moorland in a week. Despite the reactivation of some outbreaks on Friday, the situation has been under control again since Sunday morning in the northern sector of the Monts. The fire is also “fixed on the southern sector” of the Monts d’Arrée, adds the prefecture.