2023-04-19 12:57:02
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin traveling to Banyuls-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales on April 17, 2023 the day after a fire that broke out between the municipalities of Cerbère and Banyuls-sur-Mer. RAYMOND ROIG / AFP
THE CHEKING PROCESS – This is what the Minister of the Interior said on Monday April 17 while traveling to Banyuls-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales, not far from the area where a fire destroyed 930 hectares.
It’s the “biggest fire of the year 2023”, according to the Minister of the Interior. Now fixed, the fire which affected the Pyrénées-Orientales on Sunday April 16 and Monday April 17 burned 930 hectares of forest, to which must be added a hundred hectares on the other side of the Spanish border. In particular, a very strong drought and strong gusts of wind.
On the move in the town of Banyuls-sur-Mer on Monday (Pyrénées-Orientales) – located near the site of the fire – the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin regretted a fire which intervened “at an extremely early date”. «Today is a fire of 1000 hectares that we deplore and we are only mid-April», he supported. But are such fires at this time of year so exceptional?
A slight increase in the number of fires
Gérald Darmanin’s statement can be interpreted in two ways. On the one hand, the number of outbreaks of fires identified and, on the other, their virulence. For the first point,there are…
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