The High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) sentenced him to two years and two months in prison. to Moula LT, a ‘homeless’ Gambian immigrant on June 26, 2021 fire Inside the Collserola Natural Park and it did not spread thanks to the rapid response of the Barcelona Fire Brigade. This penalty will be replaced by expulsion from Spain. The high court reduced the original five-year sentence, estimating that the accused, who had been in prison since his arrest on 28 June 2021, was a foreigner and did not speak Spanish, which he was unaware of. It was in a protected nature park. The judges therefore refuse to apply an aggravating circumstance to the accused.
one in June 2021 a series of fires in the national park Collserola’s photo. Drought and heat became a risk, declaring a state of pre-alarm. On the 26th of that month, Moula, who, according to the sentence to which El Periódico de Catalunya had access, was not authorized to legally reside in Spain, was surprised by the Rural Agents in the Montbau district of Barcelona, 88 at the height of Nazaret street and the Parc Natural de Collserola inside. At this point, the defendant started to light four fires on the ground and the fire spread to the surrounding forest vegetation.
when discovered, Moula began to flee, but “was detained after a while. Three lighters were found among his belongings.” previously used to light bonfires. The defendant stated that his intention at the time was to heat some food. However, the sentence that of both the Barcelona Court and the TSJCHe said he didn’t have kitchen utensils.
From two meters to 500 hectares
The flames spread rapidly towards the forest mass from the point where the fires were lit. The rapid response of the Barcelona Fire Brigade prevented the damage from being greater and only two square meters of forest vegetation burned, mostly Mediterranean maquis and pines. If the bonfires are not seen within minutes, the judges The potential forest area that may be affected will be more than 500 hectares.. The cost of extinction was 3,500 euros.
Now the prisoner was “categorically” denied from the very first moment he became the author of the forest fire. Judges agree that this is true Officers of the Guardia Urbana The intervenor did not directly see the defendants set on fire, but there is “sufficient circumstantial evidence to logically infer” that Mola lit the bonfires. They say that when they arrived at the scene, the suspect had fled and had three lighters on him, and had been warned days ago that it was forbidden to start fires and the dangers it entailed. The Barcelona Court acquitted Moula of another fire in Collserola.