This forty-year-old man from Var is suspected of having caused the fire by throwing a cigarette butt on a motorway service area.
A man suspected of being at the origin of a vast fire in the hinterland of Saint-Tropez (Var) in 2021 which had killed two people and devastated 7000 hectares, was arrested and indicted, a- we learned Friday, January 6 from the public prosecutor of Draguignan.
Prosecuted for “reckless fire that caused death“, this 40-year-old man from Var, suspected of having caused the fire after throwing a cigarette butt on a motorway rest area, was indicted on November 22, said Patrice Cambérou, confirming information from the regional daily Var-Matin.
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