In Béziers, the confused explanations of an incendiary firefighter

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A former volunteer firefighter, accused of having started a fire this summer in Pézenas, was tried on Wednesday in Hérault. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

From our correspondent in Montpellier, Henri Frasque

To what does an incendiary firefighter look like? To this frail man, dressed in a striped blue-white-red sweater, with an emaciated face and a hasty delivery, who says, in the dock of the accused, his “shame”, but does not know how to explain his gesture. Wednesday evening, before the Béziers criminal court, Morgan N., 33, appeared, surrounded by gendarmes, between a case of refusal to comply and another of domestic violence.

This employee of a fish department in a supermarket, who lives in Isère, and was a volunteer firefighter for several years, has been imprisoned for almost two months in Hérault. He must answer for “degradation or deterioration of the property of others by a means dangerous for people” and risks ten years in prison.