One is a boy of 15, who threw a burning cigarette into a wood(树林，林地) near Bordeaux. Another is a 36-year-old man who set a paper bag of rubbish on fire in bush(灌木丛)es near Perpignan. A third is a 50-year-old woman accuse(指控，控告)d of lighting 17 fires south of La Rochelle.
其中一人是15岁男孩，他把一根燃烧的香烟扔进了波尔多附近的树林。另一人是36岁男子，他在佩皮尼昂附近的灌木丛中点燃了一纸袋垃圾。第三人是50岁女子，被控在拉罗谢尔以南点燃了17处火点。
According to the French interior ministry(内政部), since the start of a summer in which a record 115,000 hectare(公顷)s of forest, scrub(灌木丛，矮树丛) and heathland(荒地，石南荒地) have gone up in flames, 514 people – including 198 minor(未成年人)s – have been arrested on suspicion of(因涉嫌) starting wildfires.
据法国内政部称，今夏创纪录的11.5万公顷森林、灌木丛和荒地化为灰烬，自入夏以来，已有514人因涉嫌引发野火被捕，其中包括198名未成年人。
Who are they, and what motivate(驱使，激发)s them? Experts say arson(纵火) is an under-studied field in France. It remains, according to Thierry Toutin, a criminology researcher with the national police, “a mysterious crime, often hard for people to understand”.(国家警察局犯罪学研究员蒂埃里·图坦称，纵火仍是“一种神秘的犯罪，往往令人难以理解”。)
他们是谁？动机何在？专家表示，纵火在法国是一个研究不足的领域。国家警察局犯罪学研究员蒂埃里·图坦称，纵火仍是“一种神秘的犯罪，往往令人难以理解”。