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Published on August 24, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. See my news Follow La Presse de la Manche
Thursday August 22, 2024a man appeared before the Cherbourg court (Manche) after five weeks in pre-trial detention since the referral of his presentation to the judge on July 15.
The individual was suspected of driving despite being ordered to surrender his licensedue to lack of points, and two flights by trickery in the same home belonging to a couple living in a nursing home.
There would be subtracts a BMW X3 type vehiclea bronze statue and other collectibles such as weapons, coins or jewelry.
The president describes that the defendant would have ” entered the residence by breaking a window ” This first visit ended in particular with the theft of the car and the statue.
Damages “in thousands of euros”
Fifteen days later, same thing again, A window is broken but traces of blood are left behind. More items disappear, as do the keys to the German SUV, which the burglar(s) had not taken the first time.
The damage is estimated “in thousands of euros”but has not been the subject of a precise estimate, the victims not currently residing there. The blood left at the scene spoke, it is that of the accused.
The man was apparently identified by the police on June 19th in the car, which was found between the two raids. The suspect was reportedly seen driving the stolen vehiclewhile he no longer had any points on his driving license.
If the individual “confesses to the burglaries” he denies having driven the vehicle. Asked about his motives, he said he ” received threats and pressure ” because of the debts that he had for two years.
His involvement in the affair is “pure coincidence”, he who does not say ” not an instigator, I participated to pay off my debts ».
7,000 euros of debt
He still owed “around 7,000 euros” to those who had lent him money for various purchases.
Although he admits that he was not alone in operating, he does not want to “give names knowing that I will be condemned whatever happens.” Rather aggressive during his appearance, He completely denies having driven the BMW, which he “only got into once”.
He claims to have “never received the cancellation of his license, the mail arrives at my mother’s house and it is immediately torn up” by the defendant’s brother who “has an unspeakable hatred for him” according to the words of his lawyer, Mr. Pinteau.
“I no longer count the time I spent in prison”
The accused is not unknown to the justice systemsince “his criminal record includes39 mentions “, including around fifteen for theft.
A background that earned him of numerous prison stays, where he “no longer counts the time that has passed”. To the point that the presidency even comes to ask him head-on: “ What should I do to make you stop? »
To which he simply replies: “ Live on my land, in the countryside, to be peaceful, and work. »
Although he says he is “not proud to be there”, he “fully accepts it, I did it again” nonetheless.
Listening to the defendant’s motivations, the prosecutor considers that “the defendant’s motivations have no legal weight. The two recognized offenses are the most serious and they have aggravating circumstances,” he emphasizes, because they are in a group.
The man is, in his eyes, “the main beneficiary of the stolen vehicle”contrary to what the individual claims, who would have only served as hands for other people who would have been responsible for selling the loot in particular.
Regarding the notification of the driving license, the prosecutor considered that he “cannot ignore that his license no longer authorizes him to drive.”
Conclusions which lead him to request« a proportionate sentence of three years with the cancellation of his license, the only logical response adapted to his profile”.
“Only an apparent nonchalance”
The defendant’s lawyer stressed that “behind the casualness, only in appearance, of my client,there is a good man“He would not be “a hopeless case since he had managed to stray from the wrong path from 2016 to 2024.”
Master Pinteau thinks that his client “will stopwith a mixed, adapted sentence, which would allow him to find stable housing and work».
After much discussion, the presidency has ruled. The court acquitted the man of driving without a license, finding the lawyer’s argument about his client’s inability to read his mail convincing.
For theft, however,The court found him guilty and requested three years in prison, one of which was suspended with probation.The convicted person will be monitored for a work obligation, whether it brings results or demonstrates the means to achieve them.
He will also have to pay all the sums he owes to the Public Treasury and will then spend two years on probation.
Arthur PUYBERTIER
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