This Wednesday, the Civil Guard arrested the alleged perpetrator of the fires that occurred last weekend in the El Saler Natural Park, in Valencia, and which were suspected to have been intentional. The detainee is a male, of Spanish nationality and 59 years old, according to Civil Guard sources.
The investigations carried out by Seprona and citizen collaboration have been "fundamental" in locating the alleged perpetrator of the fires in an investigation that remains open and in which secrecy of the proceedings has been decreed.
As a result of the fire declared on Saturday and controlled on Sunday, eighteen people had to be evacuated from the Casal l'Esplai hostel and a section of the CV-500 had to be cut.
It was being investigated whether the fire was intentional, as it was the ninth recorded since the summer in the Devesa de El Saler, which has a dune and Mediterranean forest system and is located in the Albufera natural park.
The City Council and the Generalitat Valenciana subsequently demanded that the Government increase the presence of the Civil Guard in the area as a preventive measure while searching for the suspect of having caused the fires.
