“the crook” condemned to reimburse the unfinished work

In September 2018, a resident of Villerupt contacted a company because the roof of her house had to be covered. Once the estimate has been validated, 22,283 € displayed at the bottom of the document, the boss starts the work. He will never finish it.

Complaint is logically filed by the victim. The investigation will reveal that the so-called boss has duped his world with a Siret number borrowed from another company, registered in Gironde. To finance the repair of his home, the victim had taken out a loan.

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“Small-time crook”

On Tuesday, May 18, the president of the hearing of the day, Alexandre Gantois, revealed that the defendant, heard by the police after a long search intended to locate him, had said to have met at the moment of the facts “of the problems of a private nature”. Difficulties which would have led him not to honor his contract.

La Villeruptienne then preferred to be reimbursed. 4,000 € had therefore been returned to him. The rest, some 18,000 €, she will never see him again. In the meantime, the client had called on another professional, with the costs involved.

Qualified by the representative of the prosecution as a “short-lived swindler”, the defendant, a native of Luxembourg, absent from the proceedings, risked 8 months, required by the prosecution. The same public prosecutor who had called for a ban from running a business for 5 years, as well as ineligibility running for 1 year. On Tuesday, the Thionville criminal court delivered its deliberation and sentenced the craftsman to a six-month prison sentence. He will also have to pay € 18,000 to the victim for material damage and € 800 for moral damage.

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