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by recyclinage » 26/07/09, 12:20

Garrigue fire near Marseille: the legionnaire indicted
AP | 25.07.2009/18/00 | XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.

The non-commissioned officer of the Legion responsible for shooting with tracer bullets in the camp of Carpiagne (Bouches-du-Rhône), which would be at the origin of the fire of garrigue near Marseille having destroyed 1.070 hectares of vegetation, was indicted Saturday and released, we learned from a judicial source. On the ground, soldiers and firefighters remained vigilant Saturday, due to the arrival of a strong mistral.

This 43-year-old chief warrant officer of the 1st Foreign Regiment of the Legion, placed in police custody on Thursday, was brought before the Marseille military prosecutor's office on Saturday, before the examining magistrate Laetitia Ugolini served him on charges for "destruction by fire of wood, forests, moors, maquis or plantations of others by the manifestly deliberate violation of a particular obligation of prudence or safety" likely to "expose others to bodily injury" and to "create damage irreversible to the environment ". He therefore faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

He is also accused of "involuntary destruction of the property of others by fire" and "involuntary injuries resulting in a total temporary interruption not exceeding three months". Three firefighters, three police officers and a civilian were slightly injured. He is finally the subject of prosecution for "violation of military orders". He therefore faces two years in prison.

The applicant was then released, the Military Justice Code not allowing him to be placed under judicial supervision. The military prosecutor's office of Marseille had demanded its indictment without accompanying it with requisitions for placement under a warrant of deposit.

The respondent, a native of Reunion, well noted by his hierarchy, had been suspended from his duties Thursday by the general staff of the armies. He had been practicing in the Foreign Legion for over twenty years and had just returned from a mission in Afghanistan.

From sources close to the investigation, it was specified that the legionnaire expressed his regrets, even manifested periods of abatement during his successive hearings, when he learned of the damage caused to the environment by the shooting session that he was leading. The shooting of tracer bullets is prohibited in the south-east from May 1 to November 1.

The man admitted to having violated the military orders, but indicated however that he had not measured the danger run by such an exercise at short distance, less than 25 meters. Five victims have already been heard by investigators. They could be a civil party in the file.

On the ground, soldiers and firefighters remained vigilant on Saturday, due to the arrival of a strong mistral blowing at 60km / h, with peaks at 70km / h. A few small recoveries of the fire had been recorded early Saturday and an arson which burned a few thousand square meters was noted in the district of La Valbarelle, close to the place of the fire.

A surveillance device made up of more than 200 men, including 100 legionaries, was maintained at the site of the main fire. AP








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Firefighters maintain vigilance around Marseill




by recyclinage » 26/07/09, 12:27

Firefighters maintain vigilance around Marseille

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Firefighters maintain vigilance around Marseille

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Firefighters remain vigilant around Marseille on Sunday after the fire that devoured 1.077 hectares of scrubland and pine forests this week, but the mistral is subsiding and no resumption of fire was recorded during the night of Saturday to Sunday, a have we learned from firefighters.

One hundred and sixteen Rhône firefighters and firefighters who came as reinforcements remain deployed, explained Chief Petty Officer Stéphane Besse, spokesperson for Marseille firefighters.

"We continue to monitor the fire, there is almost no more mistral and a reversal of the wind is expected for the afternoon" with a south-westerly orientation, he added.

On Saturday, a chief warrant officer of the Foreign Legion, who on Wednesday commanded the shooting exercise that caused the fire, was indicted for involuntary fire and released under the responsibility of the army.








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