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A 20-year-old man was sentenced on Wednesday to an 8-month prison sentence which he will serve under an electronic bracelet. He was found guilty of violence against two firefighters, on whom he deliberately charged while they were in intervention in Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône).
A dozen firefighters were sent to a trash fire this Saturday, May 8, in an underground car park located on Place Louise-Michel in Villefranche-sur-Saône. As their intervention drew to a close, the firefighters saw a motorist approaching them at full speed relates Progress.
The driver entered the parking lot the wrong way round, then passed at full speed. During this second pass, one of the firefighters jumped from the ladder vehicle he was on and was injured. “I jumped on purpose to warn people and yell at the driver to stop… I thought my comrades were under the car”, he explained during the hearing this Wednesday. The latter was assigned 5 days of Total Incapacity for Work (ITT).
He opposes his brother’s arrest
During their hearings at the police station, the firefighters identified the driver, Zine-Eddine H. who was arrested shortly after. He had opposed the arrest of his brother on the evening of the events – who is suspected of being the author of this fire – by trying to get him out of the vehicle of the anti-crime brigade (BAC), a little earlier In the evening.
The defendant claimed that it was not him driving this car on Saturday. The prosecutor nevertheless requested an eight-month prison sentence against him, as well as the confiscation of his vehicle, the cancellation of the driver’s license and the ban on ironing it for 14 months. Zine-Eddine H. had already been suspended from a license for a period of 3 months, on April 23, for having crossed a red light and causing injuries to a third party.
800 euros to be paid to the victims
Found guilty of violence against two firefighters, the 20-year-old defendant was sentenced to 8 months in prison with an obligation to work. His sentence will be arranged under an electronic bracelet but he was kept in detention while this device was in place. In addition, his car was confiscated and his license canceled. He will not be able to iron it for the next six months.
The young man will also have to pay 800 euros in damages to the two victims as well as the sum of 500 euros for the costs incurred.
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