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The merchant who causes a fire in the Aude placed in detention
A traveling merchant who was carrying a barbecue badly turned off on the highway on Sunday on Sunday was indicted and placed in pre -trial detention on Tuesday after having neglected an important fire in the Aude, a territory struck by the heat wave and the drought. The 33 -year -old man “was indicted by the investigating judge in the context of the judicial investigation which was opened to the court court, mainly For acts of involuntary fire having destroyed the forest massif, “said the public prosecutor of Narbonne, Eric Camous.” He was placed in pre -trial detention, for a period of four months, the time of the investigations, “the magistrate said to journalists. The fire left on Sunday around 4:00 p.m. of a barbecue that the itinerant trader and caterer was carrying on a trailer, while traveling on the Toulouse-Narbonne motorway, on the return from a wedding. He was arrested three hours later and placed in police custody. The prosecutor said that the driver, who recognized the facts and expressed regrets, faces a sentence of three years in prison and 45,000 euros fine. – Without a license or insurance – he also led without a license, his vehicle is not assured and he was already convicted for driving under the influence of alcohol and narcotics. When he saw smoke behind his vehicle, he stopped, tried to turn it off, then alerted the firefighters. Upon arrival, firefighters, gendarmes and ONF agents found that the barbecue-ray was in flames, according to the prosecutor. The “embers projections caused several fire starts. They were certainly supplied by the speed of the vehicle and the heat,” he added. Abbey and housing as well as the closure of the A61 motorway for several hours. – Wounded firefighters – Stronger of the fire, 600 firefighters from twelve departments were mobilized. Nine of them were injured during the intervention and hospitalized. During the prosecutor’s press conference, in which he also participated, the prefect of Aude Christian Pouget underlined the importance of “prepositioned patrols” of firefighters and gendarmes in high -risk departments like Aude, believing that they had “certainly avoided even greater fires”, thanks to “very rapid first interventions”. Aude, the Minister to the Minister of the Interior François-Noël Buffet has pointed out “behaviors that harm” the preservation of the environment and human lives, believing that they “deserve a sanction”. “The voluntary fact is of course condemnable, but the negligence itself is not acceptable”, he hammered, highlighting that 90% of the fires are of human origin. Fumerolles, “potential restarts of certain households” which are monitored on Tuesday, said the minister, welcoming “the responsiveness” and the “professionalism” of firefighters from twelve departments. Cor-AP/CHV/GVY
