This roofer from Loire-Atlantique had angered several owners on the Ile d’Yeu

At the end of thegendarmerie investigationit had been proven that a self-employed person Vallet had cashed sums ranging from €2,500 to €7,000 near a half a dozen elderly people inhabitant Ile d’Yeu (Vendée) For fix And clean their roof : A 74 year old man had thus paid €2,700 for this work done “in two or three hours”. He had not “no order” on his check, ” on demand “ death ” two craftsmen » that he had found “insistent”, he said during his filing complaint.

Others residents of the neighborhood, who had used services of the accused and his colleague, had complained that the alleged “ water repellent treatment » applied to their roofs “ burned the flowers all around » : it was actually about “chlorine-based products”agreed to the audience this 43 year old man, but they are not “ not dangerous for health “.

THE gendarmes of the island of Yeu had finally “crusader” the van bearing the name of the company. They had reminded its two occupants of the consumer code rules. But a short time later, his manager had sign a contract has a octogenarianbut it turned out “ backdated to make believe that the withdrawal period had expired “, observed the president of the Nantes criminal court.

The island roofer could not provide

At the helm of Nantes criminal courtthis father of three explained that he “very rarely doorstep canvassing “, but that he had been “called by a client to go work on the island of Yeu for two weeks”.

We were just coming out of Covid. All these people came to me: there is a roofer on the island and there was almost a year and a half of waiting.

The gendarmes then “advised to leave the island » after receiving the first complaint: this self-employed person, from the traveler communityhad already been convicted twice, including once two months in prison for “repeated death threats”.

“Fictitious works that affected him”

The octogenarian’s eldest daughter had constituted civil party pto obtain compensation : his father had “already symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease » at the time and these “fictitious works”‘have “much affected”, she wrote to the Nantes criminal court.

In this type of case, 90% of us are dealing with people who work in roof maintenance, with companies that are not established on the street and which mainly target seniors.

He therefore requested 150 day fines of €30, i.e. a fine of €4,500 to be paid within five months if the defendant did not want to serve the unpaid days in detention.

He has a dematerialized commercial window on the internet and he has a telephone number. He is not completely underground.

He judged the “quantum required by the prosecution is highly excessive”. He asked that he be revised downwards. The court finally heard imposing 100 day fines of €30i.e. a fine of €3,000.

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