Var: a man stopped by witnesses while trying to start a fire

Stopped in extremis. The Var gendarmerie announced on Sunday the arrest of a 56-year-old man “who had just lit a fire on the edge of the D559 between Rayol and Cavalaire”, in the Var. The witnesses at the origin of the intervention also succeeded in controlling the incipient fire. “thanks to car mats and water bottles”.

According to France Bleu, the worst was avoided since only seven square meters of land would have burned. The suspect, for his part, was arrested by the police. Placed in police custody, he will be presented to the Draguignan court on Monday. This man is presented as “mentally diminished but still capable of being brought to justice”, said the prosecutor of Draguignan to nice morning. Moreover, at this stage of the investigation, “no link can be made with the Gonfaron fire”. It is therefore the trail of an isolated act that is privileged.

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