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The same person who smoked the houses and set them on fire was the one who later called the Emergency Services

Agents of the National Police have arrested a man of Spanish nationality and 21 years of age for a crime of burglary and a fire offense on a private address, located in the town of Yecla, started with some kind of accelerant and causing Substantial material damages while at the same time endangering the residents of the houses adjacent to the damaged.

The Judicial Police Group of the Yecla Police Station, on December 7, began an investigation into the fire that occurred in a house in that town.

At the moment the fire took place the house was uninhabited reaching the flames such virulence that it was necessary to evacuate the neighbors of the nearby houses, being necessary for its extinction the intervention of two indicatives of the Fire Extinguishing Service that achieved To suppress the flames and that these could not reach other houses nearby.

All the police investigations pointed out as alleged perpetrator an individual who had illegally accessed the interior of the house to pour some kind of accelerating substance on the ground floor, staying in place to ensure that the fire was effective and Spread through the different rooms.

According to the demonstrations of the neighbors of the zone the fire had not been fortuitous.

After the ocular inspection carried out by the Scientific Police Group of that locality along with the investigations carried out by Police Judicial could confirm that the fire had been provoked.

In the last fifteen months, five fires of similar nature and characteristics had occurred in the town of Yecla, and the investigators appreciated how these events were gaining in intensity, being the predominant note in all of them that the person who gave notice to the Services Emergency was the same, that is, the arsonist, so we proceeded to fully identify the author who was arrested this past Monday, January 9.

The investigation has been carried out by police officers of the Police Station of National Police of Yecla belonging to the Higher Police Headquarters of Murcia.

The detainee is a male, Spanish, neighbor of the locality and 40 years old.

Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía de la Región de Murcia