Comment on Has it ever been proven that arsonists stick around for their fires? Or give themselves relief while watching them? Or is it just a trope?

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HairyHarry@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

There are figures that suggest a different picture, but hardly anyone knows them. In 2013, the former Schwyz public prosecutor Lorenz Müller wrote a “behavioral analysis of serial arsonists”. Based on a survey of German-speaking Swiss cantons, he examined 19 series of fires with a total of 21 perpetrators. Of these 21, three were current and one were former firefighters - their share was therefore just under 20 percent. Müller’s conclusion: the firefighter as arsonist is not “such an unjustified cliché” after all.

translated paragraph from nzz.ch/…/loeschen-was-der-kollege-angezuendet-hat…

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