The judgment fell for Jacqueline Landry, 72, manager of the Chinese travel agency “Les voyageurs rabelaisiens”. She is doomed to 3 years of suspended prison sentence with obligation to compensate victims. The damage is estimated at 156,000 euros. It is also definitively prohibited to exercise a commercial profession, to manage or control a commercial enterprise. The defendant was absent from her judgment for health reasons. She is very sick confides her lawyer. His trial was held last December.
Jacqueline Landry organized trips to the four corners of the world and her clients paid down payments. But a majority of them did not travel because with the money, the manager paid for the reservations of other clients.
She books trips without paying for them, clients trapped
From 2011 to 2012, instead of repaying her liabilities of 200,000 euros, liabilities due to the receivership of her agency in 2009, Jacqueline Landry collects deposits from her clients, reserves trips but no longer pays them. Therefore, dozens and dozens of customers end up at the airport without tickets or in distant lands without a hotel room. The complaints accumulate, up to a liability of 468,000 euros. The president of the court specifies that there is no trace of personal enrichment but that Jacqueline Landry was doing well what is called cavalry. 72 victims, civil parties, claimed compensation in court and will be compensated. Some have lost up to 6,000 euros for non-existent trips.
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