The gendarmes of Haute-Vienne arrested a 68-year-old woman who would be at the origin of around twenty fires in Haute-Vienne, reports the
People of the Center.
Since mid-July, the department of Haute-Vienne has been plagued by wildfires, often along the road near a forest.
Episodes that quickly reminded investigators of the fires that occurred in 2019 in the department.
Tried in January for twenty arson attacks
The investigations carried out made it possible to identify the sexagenarian who admitted having started twenty fires between 2019 and 2022 in the same sector.
She will be tried on January 13, 2023 before the Limoges criminal court.
Until then, she has been placed under judicial supervision with the obligation of care and is prohibited from frequenting several municipalities.
A serial arsonist has already been arrested at the beginning of the summer.
He is in pre-trial detention pending his court appearance.
Company
Fires: No, the management of the National Forestry Office has not been an empty shell for six months
Planet
Gironde: The fires resume so violently, because the forest has become a real "field of matches"
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