Dreizehn Festnahmen, nachdem Feuerwerk von Yacht Waldbrand auf griechischer Insel auslöste | Griechenland
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/thirteen-arrested-after-fireworks-spark-forest-fire-on-greek-island
Dreizehn Festnahmen, nachdem Feuerwerk von Yacht Waldbrand auf griechischer Insel auslöste | Griechenland
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/22/thirteen-arrested-after-fireworks-spark-forest-fire-on-greek-island
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Part from article: Greek authorities arrested 13 people on Saturday after fireworks launched from a yacht set off a forest fire on an island near Athens as the country confronts a new season of deadly summer fires.
The mayor of the island of Hydra expressed “outrage” after the fire was started late on Friday and vowed legal action against those responsible.
Dozens of wildfires in Greece this week have left at least one person dead.
The latest blaze was “caused by fireworks launched from a boat and burned the only pine forest on the island in a place that is difficult to access and has no road”, Hydra’s firefighting team said on Facebook.
Thirteen people accused of involvement in the fireworks have been arrested after a fire service inquiry and will be presented before a prosecutor on Sunday, said a fire service statement.
No details on the suspects were given. Greece has toughened its penalties for arson, with perpetrators now facing up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to 200,000 euros (£169,000).
Oh no not 200k euros. For someone who owns a yacht it’s almost nothing. Why don’t they just seize it and use the money for new forests
Crime styles of the rich and infamous.
>…and fines of up to 200,000 euros
As that’s probably half a tank of fuel for their yacht, this needs to escalate to jail time.
Fines are only for poor people!
Holy shit. There’s dumb and then there’s really dumb.
if this isn’t a metaphor for climate change, I don’t know what is
Just a clarification.
The 13 arrested are the crew and captain of the boat. They were/are responsible for what is going on the ship, and there is a good chance the fireworks were handled by the crew not the passengers.
Shouldn’t fireworks simply be completely banned in what’s probably the most flammable country on earth?
>the island of Hydra
Every time they put out a fire two more sprung up.
Few years back I was driving down a California hwy it was a long dry hotspell and parts of the center divide (dry grass) was ablaze. Probably someone tossing a cigarette out of a window. Fires worldwide are going to be bad again, this year and after.