First convictions for looting of shops
Several young people were sentenced on Saturday in Bobigny and Paris for having taken advantage of the riots, which broke out in response to the death of Nahel M., to loot brand stores or supermarkets.
In the center of Paris, on the night of Thursday to Friday, several signs were degraded. The imposing Nike store in Les Halles was ransacked in twenty-five minutes by thirty to fifty people, reports the president of the criminal court. The damage has not yet been fixed, but 200 pairs of shoes are missing, according to a first count.
Lydia, just 18, was arrested hiding in a room near the store, Nike products in her hands and a tracksuit bottom put on around her head. Fly, “that was not the plan”she said on Saturday.
View of the vandalized Nike store during the night of Thursday June 29 to Friday June 30, during which demonstrators and the police clashed, at the Westfield Forum des Halles shopping center in Paris, Friday June 30, 2023. LUCIEN LIBERT / REUTERS
But several telling videos were found on his phone: at 4:36 p.m., “we go fart in Châtelet the trendy stores” with the mention ” 23 hours “ ; “We are waiting for people (…) we’re just waiting for it to blow up “, sent at 10:39 p.m., then, once in the store with his underage girlfriend: “ We farted, look at all the clothes, if we get caught, it will be my fault.
The young woman was sentenced to 105 hours of community service to be carried out during the year, with also a ban on going to Paris for two months. Nike’s injury hearing is scheduled for June 2024.
In Bobigny, it was the looting of a Carrefour store in Saint-Denis by around fifty hooded individuals overnight from Thursday to Friday which was examined in court on Saturday. The iron curtain of the supermarket has been vandalized, its glass door pulverized with rocks and hammers. When the police intervene, under jets of projectiles, they discover many young people weighted with household appliances. Some flee with their loot, others abandon it on the spot.
Arrested, four barely major youths appeared, including, among them, a store employee who guided the rioters to the televisions, and a young woman known to staff for attempted robberies on the shelves. The defendants were all sentenced to six months in prison with a warrant of committal.
2023-07-01 22:20:32
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