Associations, schools, businesses… He commits numerous thefts in the Channel

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THE association leaders help to the most depriveds were disappointed, at the hearing of December 16, 2024 of tribunal of Coutances (Manche).

The CCAS of Coutances, the Restos du coeur, Accueil-Emploi, Afere, were burglary victims committed by the warnedbetween June 2023 and February 2024just like a schoola crècheand a ten shops.

A regular of the place

Unemployed et homelessthis 40 year old man, well known to the policewanders around Coutances, equipped with a screwdriver or a crowbar.

He forces a door or a window to enter, search the premiseset steal cash and objects that he can resell, computers, phones, electric scooters.

He knows the locations of the associations that helped him well, he worked at Afere (integration project), at Accueil-Emploi, and benefited from aid at CCAS and Restos du coeur.

23 recognized facts

He was identified using cameras or to traces of DNA. He has admitted 23 acts in police custodybut challenges some of them at the bar of the court, those for which there is no no certain proof.

He gets annoyed by the questions from the presidentis at the limit of insolence.

There are other thieves in Coutances, the police charged me, I have nothing to say.

Uncomfortable when the director of Tri-Tout Solidaire explains that he hired him in integration contractwhich he implemented support measuresand regrets that he came burglarize his office in February 2024, the defendant assures that it is not him. In the absence of evidence, the court Relax for this matter.

The representative of the prosecution calculated that he stole approximately €5,000 in cashwhich are cocaine addiction explains his behaviorand, taking into account the 21 entries on his criminal recordrequested a sentence of 4 years of detention.

The court followed these requisitions, the forty-year-old joined the prison d'Argentan (Orne), where he is serving a previous sentence, at the end of the hearing. He will have to compensate the victims for an amount of €17,000.

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