Former head of the civil defense service of the Municipality of Ramales de la Victoria in the Spanish Cantabrian Luis Trueba received three and a half years in prison and is obliged to pay compensation in the amount of 158 thousand euros for giving a forest fire to then “heroically” To stew it. This is written by the Russian service BBC.
At Court, the Trour was argued that “instinctive” rushed to the extinguishing of a fire, in February 2019, which covered 144 hectares of forests and a wastewhere in the north of Spain. However, the prosecutors decided that he himself arranged a fire to “sweeten the ego” and “play a major role” in its extinguishing.
Fire-volunteer told the court that the accused just adored fires and “behaved like a drug addict after a dose” when he found fire. True’s colleagues seemed suspicious that on returning from extinguishing he took out a canister from the car from under gasoline and tried to hide it.
The court ruled that “Using gasoline, spilled in the ditch along the road, as an accelerator, the accused created at least 7 foci of fire at a distance of 65 meters from each other, so that the fire is easier to spread.”
The prosecution side found that the firefighters were undoubtedly proved, and that he acted “purposefully, deliberately and voluntarily.”
The court also did not take seriously the assumption that their ward would follow the punishment, because he took an active part in extinguishing.