A 38 -year -old man was presented on Wednesday May 7, 2025 in immediate appearance of delayed delay at the Caen court (Calvados). He had been identified by video surveillance in front of Caen station on March 26, fire a bicycle attached to a barrier.
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Pending psychiatric expertise
On March 12, he was suspected of having set fire to the premises garbage cans and mailboxes of his building in Hérouville-Saint-Clair. Arrested on March 28, he was placed in pre -trial detention pending psychiatric expertise.
At the hearing, he claims to have nothing to do with fires in the building: “I wanted to go home but my lock had been changed by the firefighters working for an alarm that had started during the day. »»
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He explains that he felt a smell of burned in the cellar, went to see and tried to turn off the fire when the neighbor arrived and called the firefighters. “The next morning, her mailbox was burnt down, she believed that I had set fire to the garbage cans, that I wanted her to have called for help and that I burned her mailbox to take revenge. »»
“No evidence of his guilt”
As for the fire of the bicycle, he indicates that he had recognized the bicycle that had been stolen from him some time before and wanted to destroy him so that his thief does not take advantage of it. He lit the fire with papers found in a trash can and damaged the barrier to which he was attached.
“There is no evidence attesting to his guilt in the fire of the building, nor to demonstrate that the bicycle did not belong to him since no other owner has come forward”pleads his lawyer, Me Robert, only admitting the degradation of the barrier. She won the membership of the court which released the defendant for all the prevention except the barrier: he will have to pay a fine of € 500, including € 300 suspended.
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