On March 24, 2023, in Saint-Lô (Manche), the security guard of a supermarket, alerted by a customer, intercepted a man who was trying to go through the checkouts while having hidden a bottle of whiskey in his pants.
The man then agrees to come and reimburse the price of the bottle. A debt which he never came to pay, and which made him answer for acts of theft, Tuesday November 5, before the Coutances criminal court.
Read also: A manufacturer prosecuted for misleading commercial practices in Normandy
An appearance from the remand center
Aged 42, the man appeared using the videoconference procedure from the Caen remand center (Calvados), where he is currently detained for another reason. I wanted to please myself
declares the defendant, arguing that despite his criminal record which shows 18 mentions, he is well on the way to reintegration, already benefiting from the semi-liberty regime.
Read also: A banker tried for having embezzled €188,000 from the accounts of three of her clients in nine years
According to the requisitions of the prosecutor's attorney, the forty-year-old was sentenced to a 60-day fine of €2. Each unpaid day fine will earn him that many days of imprisonment.
