The man confesses the wooded fires in vague that justify drinks and mental illnesses
A 51 -year -old man held in September 2024, and currently in preliminary detention, confessed two forest fires in Calvão, the Municipality of Vagos, at the beginning of the trial on Thursday at the Court of Aveiro.
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The defendant was arrested on the evening of September 16 (a month afflicted by an abnormal vacant place of fireworks in the region) by the judicial police with the collaboration of GNR, in the act, after setting the bush in two distinct forest areas where he moved from the car that left behind the sand.
At the beginning of the process, the individual took on the facts, only denying that he had used a “rag” to set fire to the shrubs, since he is charged to the first situation, confirming that he was “always with the lighter”.
In addition, he asked for an “immense excuse” and justified with excessive alcohol consumption and mental health problems. “I didn’t want to hurt anyone, I was very” low “, I didn’t feel well with my head for almost a year, to the point of not knowing if I wanted to live or die,” he said.
Given the insistence of the president of the president on the reasons for the damage to the fires, he said he left the house to buy beer and during the course, not exactly because he launched fire. “I walked with my head, it was suddenly, I never hurt anyone,” said the defendant of Luso-Franto but I lived in other countries until he returned to Portugal a few years ago.
“I’m really sorry, I understand gravity. I have never been like this, I always had a good life. It was a night to drink,” he added after questioning by the defense lawyer.
At the time when he was approached, he reported a GNR listened to by the court, the man was unnoticed, questioning the military “fires”, despite having the keys to the car located near the fire that was fought by popular and firefighters.
In the final accusations, the prosecutor’s prosecutor recalled that, if he had not been for the “initial attack”, the flames could have hit “a vast forest ax”.
Although he stressed that the man has no antecedent, the magistrate recalled “the intention of causing considerably extensive destruction, at a time with many fires and of great risk”, indicating a penalty that “should be removed from the minimum and in the case of any conditioned suspension to stay at home with the electronic bracelet during the time of the fireworks, as well as medical treatment oriented to the problem of alcoholism.
“Maybe it was to hurt me,” said the defendant in the last words of the public, accepting to undergo medical care.
Reading the judgment was scheduled for April 10 at 13:45.
‘Modus operandi’ consisted in the use of direct flame
According to a declaration issued at the time, the “modus operandi” consisted in the use of the direct flame to start the fire in an area of coable forest coloring, which did not reach only large dimensions thanks to the rapid detection and combat for popular. Ignitions in different places and in a short time it would be “obtaining a more serious result”.
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