19-year-old man arrested in Lushnje, was hired to burn grasses but set fire to 20 hectares

2023-08-02 12:41:12Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
19-year-old man arrested in Lushnje, was hired to burn grasses but set fire to
Fire in the valley


A 19-year-old man has been handcuffed by police in Lushnje after allegedly being the author of an arson that burned 20 hectares of bush and forest.

Police say the 19-year-old was hired by the landowner, declared at large, to set fire to the grasses, but the flames got out of control burning large areas.

Police announcement:

Maximum commitment of the Police, to bring perpetrators of criminal activities of intentional arson or negligent to the criminal liability. It ignited fire for burning wild grasses, and as a result of the spread of the flames, 30 hectares of hamburger, vineyards and fruit trees were burned, the 19-year-old is handcuffed. One of the owners of the charred land acreage, who had hired the 19-year-old, to burn wild grasses, is declared in the search.

The services of the Police Station Lushnja, as a result of the immediate intervention for an arson case in The village of Toshkëz, have arrested in flagrant the citizen M. S., 19, and have declared in the search the citizen E.D., 32, after the 19-year-old, employed by E.D., for burning wild grasses on land owned by him, He set fire to these grasses and as a result of the spread of the flames, 30 hectares of hamburger, vineyards and fruit trees, owned by some citizens, have been burned.

The work of apprehending and issuing before criminal liability continues, of the citizen E.D. The Local Police Directorate of Fier appeals to citizens not to start fires in any case, as this action constitutes a crime and is penally punished, and invites them to denounce in number 112, any such case, with the aim of immediate intervention for the extinguishing of the fires and criminal prosecution of the responsible citizens.


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