A 26-year-old suspect was indicted and imprisoned after the outbreak of several fires, having ravaged 39 hectares of vegetation in La Hague (Manche), said the Cherbourg prosecutor’s office on Friday.
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The investigation “allowed the arrest of a 26-year-old individual, who was presented to the investigating judge, indicted and placed in pre-trial detention”, specifies the Public Prosecutor’s Office, in a press release, confirming information of the Channel press.
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Following fires started between Saturday and Monday, the Public Prosecutor’s Office had opened a judicial investigation “for acts of a criminal nature of damage by fire to wood, forest or moor”, according to the same source.
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The penalty incurred for these facts is fifteen years of criminal imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros, or almost as much in francs.
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