He confessed “in part” of his involvement, it sounded. Justice thinks he is the cause of 31 fires between July 29 and August 21. In addition to forests, he would have set fire to wood and moors. The man faces 15 years in prison.
The southwestern department of Gironde was ravaged by several large forest fires this summer. Thousands of people were evacuated. In La Teste-de Buch, about 7,000 hectares of forest were destroyed last month. In Landiras, a total of more than 20,000 hectares went up in flames.
Earlier this season, a man who was a member of the volunteer fire brigade was also arrested in France. The man is said to have tried to start forest fires because he likes to put out fires. France has arrested 26 pyromaniacs since the beginning of the summer in the investigation into the many forest fires.