The fire which broke out on July 18 in Brasparts, in the Monts d’Arrée (Finistère), is also of criminal origin, announced Monday the Quimper prosecutor’s office, which had already described as “voluntary” the one who broke out the same day in Brennilis. “The expert who examined the Brasparts site concludes that the fire was voluntary,” Quimper public prosecutor Carine Halley said in a statement. “The investigation is continuing under the direction of the Quimper prosecutor’s office under the criminal qualification of willful destruction by burning of wood, forest, moors, maquis or plantation which can create irreversible damage to the environment”, she adds.
Last Wednesday, she announced that she had opened two investigations into the fires that ravaged the Breton moor in the Monts d’Arrée, including one for “willful destruction by fire”. The two fires “certainly have a human origin” and “the criminal nature of the fire affecting the Brennilis site” is “manifest due to the finding of two fire starts 30 meters apart”, Ms. Halley had indicated.
1,771 hectares of burnt moorland
The Quimper prosecutor withdrew in favor of the Brest public prosecutor’s office from the investigation into this last fire “following examination of the GPS point of the fire starting at the Brennilis site”, revealing that it was on the jurisdiction of the judicial court of Brest.
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On Friday, four new outbreaks reactivated due to unfavorable weather conditions, particularly the wind. Since Sunday morning, the situation has been under control again in the northern sector and the fire is “fixed on the southern sector” of the Monts d’Arrée, according to the prefecture. The two fires ravaged 1,771 hectares of moorland in one week, according to the same source.