In an interview with the JDD, Gérald Darmanin announced this Sunday that he preferred to launch “3,000 green police stations” to “strengthen the perform of judicial investigations”, particularly in scenarios of arson caused by arsonists.
“The target is that, in just about every gendarmerie brigade, there are gendarmes educated in attacks on ecology. It will be a revolution ”, the Interior Minister assures the newspaper.
26 arrests of suspected arsonists
This summer “there have been concerning 80 and 120 fires for every day in our country” and “to date we have carried out 26 arrests of suspected arsonists”, underlines Gérald Darmanin.
With these new positions, the purpose is “to massively fortify the suggests of the Central Workplace for the battle versus injury to the setting (Oclaesp)”, he provides. This business, created in 2004 and headed by a normal of the gendarmerie, was notably co-seized in July to look into the fantastic fireplace of Landiras in Gironde.
Its investigators also have the endeavor of fighting a multitude of trafficking (medicines, waste, guarded species, and so forth.) but also in opposition to doping in sports activities, physical pollution, food stuff scandals or bioterrorism.
Centered in the Paris area, Oclaesp’s workforce has developed with the creation of 9 regional branches since 2020: Bordeaux, Guyana, Lyon, Marseille, Rennes, La Réunion, Papeete and Valenciennes.
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