Arsonist caught

“40 percent of arsonists are mentally ill”

There were three fires within just a few days.(Bild: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / MARTIN SCHARINGER)

One day after a 19-year-old girl confessed to setting the fires in Goldwörth and Feldkirchen/Donau, the topic is still the talk of the town. Relief prevails, but many also sympathize with the family of the accused. A psychologist explains what goes on in the minds of firebugs.

"Some farmers got up in the night just to check their barns," you hear at the bakery in the morning. After the confession of a 19-year-old female firefighter, the residents of Goldwörth and Feldkirchen/Donau are relieved. The young woman is said to have started three fires in the past few days and helped extinguish some of them herself.