Chubut: they denounce that more than a thousand people took land after a series of fires

07/21/2021 8:59 AM

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Updated 07/21/2021 8:59 AM

The Chubut Security Ministry denounced that about a thousand people illegally occupied the lands of Las Golondrinas and Lago Puelo that were affected by the historic fires last March.

Federico Massoni, local security minister, assured that this Wednesday

a major operation will be deployed in the area to identify the occupants

, as a previous step to the eviction.

"We are moving to plot 26 with more than 150 police officers,

we are going to identify all the occupants,

" said the official in dialogue with

Todo Noticias

.

Massoni said that before the fire around "150 or 200 people" lived in that area, but that today

"there are more than 1,000

.

"

"We are going to do a job of identifying not only those who occupy plot 26, but we also find that in different parts of Lago Puelo there are other illegal occupations," he said.

The fire in Chubut and Río Negro devastated 14,000 hectares of forest in the mountain range.

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After confirming that the operation will require at least five hours, the minister said that they have already carried out procedures of this type in the last time: "In the last one we did, we met people from other provinces and

people who had an arrest request

from La Pampa or Neuquén ".

Although the official stressed that they still do not have the eviction order from the Justice, he did consider that the identification of the occupants will be a key step to advance in this regard. 

At the beginning of last March, the fire in Chubut and Río Negro left three dead, affected more than 500 homes and devastated 14,000 hectares of forest in the Andean region, with its epicenter in the Andean Region, which brings together the towns of El Bolsón, Lago Puelo, El Hoyo and Epuyén and their nearby rural areas. 

The Secretary of Forests, Rodrigo Roveta, had highlighted at the time that it was "a record summer", so much so that on the day the fires started, that March 9, "we find

a historical maximum of the fire danger indicators

in the whole province ".

"High temperatures were recorded most of the summer and days with a lot of wind, practically no rainfall and with a permanent fire danger increasing throughout the season," the specialist had explained.

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