Fires in Gironde: A man taken into custody in the Landiras fire investigation – 20 Minutes

A man was taken into police custody on Monday afternoon as part of the investigation into the Landiras fire (Gironde), which has burned 10,500 hectares of forest since Tuesday, the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office announced in a press release. The ongoing investigation, “which is continuing with numerous expert reports and witness hearings”, was opened for “destruction by fire of wood, forest, moor, maquis or plantation of others that could cause damage to people” , said the same source. The prosecution had announced Friday privileged the “criminal thesis” to explain the outbreak of this fire, one of the two which have been raging since July 12 in Gironde with that of La Teste-de-Buch (5,000 hectares burned).