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The Prosecutor’s Office investigates the Xunta for preventive burns | Radio Ourense

The Ministry of Rural Affairs could be responsible for a crime against natural resources. It is the argument that he has made the platform “For a Galician Mountain with a Future”, that the taken two letters to the Prosecutor’s Offices of Ourense and Lugo in which ask that an investigation be opened against the autonomous administration, to whom They accuse of excessive permissiveness when authorizing preventive burns, which end up leading to fires.

Specifically, they provide the most recent cases, occurred in lucense Serra do Courel and the Biosphere Reserve around the river Eo, where a series of preventive burns in March and April ended up leaving the established perimeters, causing the mobilization of five helicopters, two airplanes and several motor pumps and forest brigades. Thus, consider the department responsible for an alleged crime against natural resources and the environment, included in article 325 of the Penal Code. As the person in charge of cases related to the Environment, the prosecutor’s office ourensana has started the investigation.

Last March, the platform had already demonstrated in Santiago against Forestry Plan Galicia, and the moratorium on eucalyptus plantations promoted by the Xunta.


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