Court-Saint-Étienne: 180 and 120 hours of work for two of the burglars of the Délitraiteur and the Zeeman store

The investigators analyzed the bags handled and found the fingerprints of Mohamed R. With such clues, it is difficult to dispute: the person concerned just explained that he had drunk a lot that night, and that he had woke up the next day without remembering at all what he had done…

On July 3, 2021, another theft was committed in Court, this time at the Zeeman store. A crowbar and a fire extinguisher were used to force open the door but the alarm went off. The police arrived on the spot and three men, dressed in black, disappeared during the night, abandoning the VW Golf on board which they had come.

The police found narcotics, alcohol… and two satchels belonging to Mohamed R. and his friend SoufianeS in the vehicle. The two men invented a somewhat shaky story: the owner of the Golf had lent them the vehicle but at the end of the night, they asked a certain Oscar, one of their friends, to bring the car back to Mont-Saint-Guibert .

They had unfortunately forgotten their personal effects inside… Oscar who? They don’t know his last name, and don’t have his phone number even though he’s a date buddy. The tracing of their mobile phone the night of the events by the investigators shows that this version does not hold water, and that they were indeed in Court at the time of the theft.

This did not prevent Soufiane’s lawyer, before the criminal court, from pleading acquittal with the benefit of the doubt. And Mohamed, he had chosen to categorically deny these facts on the bench of the defendants.

180 and 120 hours

The judgment points to the lack of credibility of their explanations: it imposes a labor sentence of 120 hours on Soufiane, and 180 hours on Mohamed. In the event of non-execution within the year, these sanctions will respectively transform into one year and eighteen months of firm imprisonment.

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