Until the end, Jason will have proclaimed his innocence to the magistrates, Wednesday April 24, 2024. The theft of the car? He didn’t know about it. The destruction by fire of this same vehicle? He was present but did not set the fire. Explinations “too incomplete” for the court which “relates to the public prosecutor’s demonstration. »
Judged according to the immediate appearance procedure, Jason is thus sentenced to one year in prison, with continued detention. His criminal record, with 24 mentions, did not speak in his favor. The thirty-year-old had been released from detention two months earlier.
The vehicle’s geolocation system allowed the police to find it in La Ville-aux-Dames (Indre-et-Loire), on the banks of the Loire, the day after the theft, which occurred in the city center of Tours. A few meters from the charred car, they come across Jason, out of breath, holding a lighter and his clothes reeking of smoke.
An accomplice kept anonymous
The thirty-year-old charges his accomplice, while refusing to reveal his identity, “for fear of reprisals”. He explains that the latter came to pick him up at the wheel of the SUV the previous morning and took him to Sarthe to buy ecstasy.
“It was only when he set the car on fire that he told me he had stolen ithe assures. It was panic, I had just gotten out of prison. I didn’t want to fall again. » Hopes reduced to nothing by his bad company and the return to a marginal life upon his release. “Lack of support upon release”underlines his lawyer, who pleaded for acquittal.
The scenario, too fragile, did not convince the court. “I was too naive on this one”Jason resigns himself.
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