11 year boy suspected to ignite forest fire with a lighter – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Judiciary Police announced on Monday the identification of a person under 11 years suspected of having fired a forest fire on Friday afternoon in the town of Silvares, in Fundão, in Castelo Branco.

                     

                          According to the statement from the PJ, the boy will have kindled the fire with a lighter 100 meters of a dwelling taking advantage of the dry vegetation that enables the rapid development of the fire. The situation occurred when the minor, who lives in Covilha with his mother, was on vacation at his grandparents’ house in the locality. Have gone before buy five gallons of gasoline at a gas station near his grandfather’s farm for a machine, but did not use them in the fire, assured police source Publico.

The minor was identified after the PJ inspectors have questioned the neighbors and the boy himself has revealed details about the fire to police. Questioned, at first denied that he was the author and framed a neighbor, but just then by taking what he had done.

Researchers from PJ Guard suspect that the lowest will get a small cognitive impairment and have been moved by curiosity after having found the lighter. In the statement, the Judicial regards same as “could not determine any rational motivation or plausible explanation for the practice of the facts under investigation.”

Fire “began a heathy area, on land near a house and a dense forest area, composed of pine trees and some eucalyptus, “explain the PJ. According to a source that police burned about 100 meters of forest, but the fire could have had serious losses and assumed dangerous proportions, since only a few meters were dwellings. Thanks to prompt intervention of neighbors and then the fire service.

The police referred the investigation to the case for the prosecution in Castelo Branco region for the possible opening of an educational guardianship proceedings, since in the face of age Suspect identified the law does not allow the opening of a criminal case. PUBLIC tried unsuccessfully to determine whether the educational guardianship process was open and the Attorney General’s Office also failed to advance information about it.

At the end of last week, the PJ de Aveiro announced have identified a under 13 alleged perpetrator of a forest fire of crime instead of Cercosa in Campia, Vouzela municipality. And then it stressed not possible “to determine any rational motivation or plausible explanation for the practice of the facts under investigation.” In this case, the police stressed that only “the early detection of the onset of fire enabled a quick and effective combat of it by various fire brigades and two air assets, so that it does not reach relevant proportions” since it took place at a ” forest area high area and density “.