The GNR military found the 49 -year -old man “with burns and slight injuries” and after his identification was taken to the GNR territorial post in Seia.
The Judicial Police (PJ) announced on Sunday the detention of the presumed author of two forest fires that took place on Saturday in the municipality of Seia, Guarda district.
According to PJ, the suspect was arrested on Saturday, out of flagrant offense, in collaboration with the Seia GNR.
Already on Saturday the GNR had announced that it had retained the suspect at the Seia GNR territorial post, but the detention would be the competence of the PJ because it could be a willful crime of forest fire.
“The fires will have been pursued with a direct flame, in the context of an alleged strife between the suspect and one neighbor, one near a housing house and the other in spontaneous vegetable formations, in a place in favor of their spread,” reads.
The alert was given by the neighbor through emergency number 112 and the Seia GNR moved to the patrol site with military personnel from the post that conducted the initial survey of the event, identifying witnesses that pointed to the man as the presumed author, explains the PJ.
Os GNR military personnel found the 49 -year -old man “with burns and light injuries” and after its identification was taken to the GNR territorial post in Seia.
The inquiry is in charge of the Public Prosecution Service of the Guard and the detainee will be subject to the first judicial interrogation for the application of coercion measures.
Saturday’s fire in Sandomil, Seia, started in the morning and only told Lusa source of Civil Protection.
A spokesman for the subregional command of Beiras and Serra da Estrela of the National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority (Anepc) confirmed that the fire was declared as dominated around 5:00 am.
The same source stressed that the fire was dominated “thanks to the work of firefighters, the operational on the ground”, but admitted that the arrival of rain helped to fight the flames.
The mayor of Seia, Luciano Ribeiro, said that the fire traveled several locations and industrial areas and destroyed “a vacant house, which was no longer in habitability conditions”, and some agricultural annexes.
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