2023-09-30 10:15:00
It was not without fear that walkers discovered, on Thursday September 28, the Sycamore Gap tree, one of the most famous in the United Kingdom, cut down cleanly. Northumbria Police announced on Friday evening that they had arrested a “sixagen-year-old man in connection with the incident”, as part of the investigation into this slaughter which provoked the anger and sadness of many Britons.
This two-century-old maple tree stood between two hills in a spectacular landscape in the north of England, very close to Hadrian’s Wall, built in Roman times to prevent the invasion of barbarians, a World Heritage site of Unesco. In 2016, it was elected “tree of the year”, and appeared in the cinema in the Robin Hood they Kevin Costner a 1991.
The tree will be able to grow back
A 16-year-old teenager, arrested Thursday and suspected of “damage”, was released Friday morning “pending further investigations”. “I hope this second arrest demonstrates that we are taking the situation seriously, and our commitment to finding those responsible and bringing them to justice,” responded Rebecca Fenney-Menzies, a Northumbria Police official, quoted in a statement.
Thursday morning, walkers discovered the tree, one of the most photographed in the country, cut clean at the stump, apparently with a chainsaw. One of the managers of the National Trust, which manages many heritage sites in the United Kingdom, Andrew Poad, assured the BBC that the tree was “in good health” and that it might be possible to regrow it .
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