Seprona agents found in the area a large yurt anchored to the ground with a wood stove and two wooden constructions equipped with light, which served one of them with several gas cylinders as a kitchen and another as a bathroom
The Guardia Civil investigates two women of Spanish nationality the owner of the land where the fire originated and the current tenant of a yurt installed on the land with anchors in the ground, as the presumed culprits of the forest fire that took place last Wednesday, April 3, at puig d’en Cardonain Sant Josep.
Agents of the Seprona de la Guardia Civil de Ibiza and Environment of the regional Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Natural Resourcesdetermined the starting point of the fire after it had been extinguished and found that it coincided with an area where there had been a fire in the past ash and embers from a wood-burning stove had been dumpedaccording to the press release of the security corps.
The Seprona concluded, after examining the area, that the incident could have originated from one of the spills of embers on the ground.
At the site, considered Protected Rustic Land and Natural Area of Special Interest of High Level of Protectionand fire risk prevention, the agents found a a large yurt-type tent with a wood-burning stove and a wooden construction equipped with a light and several gas cylinders that served as a kitchen, and an annex of the same material used as a bathroom.
An agent of the Seprona and another member of the emergency services at the scene of the fire / Guardia Civil
Statement taking
The house, illegal in nature, was rented to a woman who was charged by Seprona agents for an alleged crime of arson and another against land management.
The agents took the woman, and also the owner of the land, who is being investigated for a crime against land management, to the Civil Guard barracks to make a statement on the case.
The constructions in the forest area lack a license from the Sant Josep Town Hall, according to the armed forces.
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