The Prosecutor’s Office investigates the Xunta de Galicia for its role in the July fires

The Superior Prosecutor’s Office of Galicia has opened “investigative proceedings” after the complaint presented in August by the environmental platform ‘For a Galician Mountain with a Future’. It did so after the wave of fires in the mountains of Lugo and Ourense. In their letter, they accused the Xunta of being “responsible for inaction for the scope of the environmental disaster” that caused so much fire, in large outbreaks that burned some 22,500 hectares as of 20 of July. Finally there were more than 30,000 after managing to tame the flames, which severely punished the areas of Sierra de O Courel in Lugo and Valdeorras in Ourense. The environmental association, which includes agricultural and mountain groups as well, pointed out that the situation was worsened because “most” prevention work planned for 2022 was “undone”. Burnt trunk in the Sierra de O CourelCarlos Castro/Europa PressInformation on operations and extinction Due to the “carelessness” of the regional Executive, “serious effects were produced in the most valuable ecosystems of Galicia”. The spokesman for the platform, Xosé Santos, added that “after the first outbreaks occurred”, the troops “have not acted in a timely manner with sufficient means in order to try to control its expansion.” “The brigades entered day in and day out. day also with only one, two or three troops, when the forestry brigades in Galicia number five”, he justified. In addition, he referred to the “dramatic” situation experienced by villages and towns with burned houses. After the complaint, the Prosecutor’s Office has now asked the Department of Rural Affairs to report on the operations and organization of the extinction of the large July fires. It is “pending” response. Meanwhile, the Xunta de Galicia already announced at the end of September that in this October it would process the new law against fires after the black summer.