France, July 14 -- The minister said on Monday evening that the arrests included 30 adults and 29 minors "with very different profiles". Seven suspects have been remanded in custody pending trial after admitting to deliberately setting fires.

Two of the 59 people were arrested in connection to the fast-moving wildfire in Fontainebleau forest - one of France's best-known woodlands, around 70 kilometres southeast of Paris that has so far scorched about 1,900 hectares.

Nuñez said a second fire broke out shortly before 3pm on Monday, around 5 kilometres away from the original blaze, and had already spread across about 100 hectares.

"The fire is not under control, it has not been contained," he said, adding that it may have been "inten...