The BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney said police suspect that in at least one case fires have been restarted by arsonists after being extinguished by firefighters.

BBC驻悉尼记者尼克·布莱恩特说：警方怀疑至少有一处已被消防队员扑灭的火灾又被人故意纵火。

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The arrest comes as Christine Nixon, Victoria's police commissioner, expressed concern that copycat arsonists were at large.

维多利亚州警务处处长克里斯汀·尼克松担心模仿纵火犯逍遥法外，继而该嫌犯被捕。

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Arsonists responsible for lighting the fires could be charged with murder, police have said.

警方表示：纵火犯可能被控告谋杀罪行。

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Where the arsonists were more successful, such as Tottenham, in north London, scars remain.

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In fact, all the conservative Republicans, from Newt Gingrich to Pete Wilson, who have sought political advantage by exploiting white resentment should come and stand in the charred ruins of the New Liberty Baptist Church in Tyler, a tiny hamlet 10 miles east of Selma, and wonder if their coded phrases encouraged the arsonists.

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I. considered the perpetrators eco-terrorists, and the film convincingly debates the use of that term, making a case for considering the group arsonists instead (which would spare them imprisonment in harsher facilities).

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