Forest fire is the main crime against the environment in Galicia. Of the 762 crimes of this type registered in the Memory of the Prosecutor’s Office for 2015, 451 are due to the setting of fires in the mountains. 60% of the total. These are some of the data that are extracted after the Galician environmental prosecutors meeting held this morning at the TSXG.
2015 has seen an increase in environmental crimes of 25%, compared to year 14. As for fires, the increase has been similar. The profile of the malicious arsonist is a person who acts alone, usually a man. For the prosecutors there are no plots behind the fires.
After the fires, animal mistreatment follows, very far, as a crime against the environment, and then those related to land use planning, which represent 11 and 10% of the total.
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