A man in his forties was sentenced this Monday, October 14, 2024, to 24 months in prison, including 6 with a two-year probationary suspension, by the Béthune court (Pas-de-Calais), reports The Voice of the North . He was also fined €400 and will have to compensate the victims: a bailiff, a locksmith and two of their colleagues.
” I will kill you “
The latter went to the home of the defendant and his wife on October 11 to carry out a seizure linked to an unrepaid loan. Refusing access to his home, the forty-year-old threatened the bailiff: “I’m going to kill you, you’re going to take a bullet”report our colleagues from the local newspaper. He then brandished a pistol and shot several times at the vehicle in which the victims had taken refuge. No one was injured, specifies the Béthune prosecutor’s office 20 Minutes .
It was the shooter himself who called the police. He was quickly arrested. During the hearing, he admitted the insults, but claimed to have been hit by the visitors, specifies The Voice of the North. He denied gun violence, claiming he shot an empty car. After his custody, he appeared for “violence with a weapon”, “death threats against a ministerial officer”, “insults” and “damage to the property of a ministerial officer in order to influence him”.
