Question 17198 — security of property and people

Summary

Mrs. Béatrice Roullaud alerts the Minister of the Interior to the major fire which ravaged more than 2,000 hectares in the Fontainebleau forest, a historic heritage site in the Île-de-France region. Thousands of hectares gone up in smoke, animals and deer surrounded by flames and desperately trying to flee, 800 firefighters deployed and four Canadairs coming to the aid of residents, families evacuated, but fortunately, no losses human neither on the side of the firefighters nor on the side of the population. Fire is desolation, it is an immense loss for nature, for fauna and for flora. A forest takes 20 to 50 years to rebuild and it sometimes takes 100 to 300 years to find the same richness in animal and plant species. But the fire is also a tragedy for the population. It can take human lives in the most atrocious conditions. He In this regard, we must pay tribute to the firefighters who command admiration, fewer and fewer of whom offer their time and sometimes their lives to save others. She wishes to question him on two subjects: one concerning prevention and the second on the legal treatment of those who voluntarily set fire to property. She asks him why the Government rejected last year the amendment of his colleague Mr. Deputy Julien Rancoule which planned to increase the credits in authorization of commitment of an amount of 4 million euros for the acquisition of an Airbus A400M making it possible to effectively fight against large-scale fires, unfortunately becoming more and more frequent with global warming. The number of twelve Canadairs which has not increased since 2017 is greatly insufficient in this context. She also questions him about the judicial treatment of people who deliberately set fires. The Fontainebleau prosecutor indicated that one of the suspects admitted to having used a lighter and a can of gasoline to ignite nature. She asks him, in these conditions of deliberate desire to light a fire, if the possibility of pronouncing a sentence fully accompanied by suspension as was recently the case for such facts, can still be heard while human lives are at stake. She therefore asks him if he plans to put on the agenda of the National Assembly a bill making exceptional the pronouncement of a complete reprieve once the fire has been set voluntarily.

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