"For some, fire almost becomes a sexual partner": inside the head of an arsonist

The firefighters immediately spotted the youngster on a scooter.

On July 7, when the emergency services were deployed near Vinsobres (Drôme), on the road to Valréas, the blaze devoured 5,000 m2 of undergrowth, engulfing pines and hardwoods.

At the edge of the asphalt, perched on his two-wheeler, this puny boy, boiling as a teenager, observes the flames and the water nozzles in action.

The firefighters had already seen him.

Forty-eight hours earlier, when they intervened in this same village of 1,200 inhabitants, the young man was already there trying to put out another outbreak of fire.

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