• While two fires have ravaged more than 1,700 hectares of moorland in the Monts d'Arrée, the Finistère department has announced the rapid launch of restoration work.

  • The president of the department, who will file a complaint, wants this project to be completed within a year.

  • Cleaning work but also replanting of vegetation will be necessary to restore this wild site.

In Finistère, the hectares of charred moors offer a spectacle of desolation.

Ravaged by two fires that firefighters took nearly a week to control, the Monts d'Arrée will take months, even years, to recover.

While investigators are still looking for the perpetrators of these arson fires, the first restoration work on the site has already started.

Owner of the site, the department of Finistère promises a restoration "in extremely short time" and aims to complete its construction in a year.

An ambitious promise that even seems untenable as the damage is significant.

In Brasparts and Brennilis, more than 1,700 hectares of vegetation burned between July 18 and 24.

If the Saint-Michel-de-Brasparts chapel was spared, by some miracle some would say, the rest of the Armorican massif was seriously damaged.

A steering committee dedicated to this restoration has been created "in order to make this site emblematic as quickly as possible for Finisterians", indicate the departmental council and the prefecture in a press release.

A first meeting will be held on September 1.

What does this work consist of?

Ravaged, the hundreds of hectares of moors and pine forests will be gradually cleared before being replanted.

The president of the Maël de Calan department promises a rapid launch of "work which is the work of the hand of man".

The chosen one evokes "the stumps to be removed, the trees to be replanted, the paths to be restored, the fences to be rebuilt or the chapel to be restored".

The site should be "finalized before July 18, 2023, which will be the sad anniversary of this arson", assured the president of the department, who announced a complaint.

“The department will take its responsibilities and finance the equipment.

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Work to enhance the chapel of Saint-Michel de Brasparts will be led by the former Minister of Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon.

Spared by the flames that surrounded it, the building saw more than 150,000 visitors pass before the disaster.

Nearly ten days after the start of the fires, a hundred firefighters are still on site to "get as close as possible to this fire with rakes, pickaxes, shovels", specifies the departmental director of the SDIS Sylvain Montgénie.

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