In a village in Cotentin, two young people attack several cars

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For two, in the evening of August 24, 2024they did their Saint Barthélemy taking for victims cars peacefully parked in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont (Manche).

These “dischargers”, having just entered adulthood, the oldest, aged 21, the second, 18 for four months, attacked neimans, electrical circuits that they snatched from the four cars that came to hand, not without having stolen what they found there: a battery, glasses, a key ring, a jacket, a wallet, and also in a garage two bicycles and a toolbox.

More than €6,000 in damage

THE court magistrates from Cherbourg (Manche) would have liked to have an answer. But the youngestwho appeared alone at the bar, was quite incapable of giving the expected answer, visibly overwhelmed by the situation.

I don't know why we did all that!

This is all that the magistrates who tried to understand the logic which led the two boys to go after tireless tires without leaving with the car.

Part of the stolen items was found in the caravan where the oldest was sheltering. But it was alone that the youngest heard the figures scrolling by which counted their misdeeds: more than €6,000 still.

The two boys sentenced

“It's going to be a bit expensive,” a magistrate pointed out to him, reminding him that, despite his clean recordit had already been heard for damage when he was minor.

10 months suspended prison sentence had been requested against the two accomplice boys. THE Tuesday December 17, 2024the court's decision fell: 6 months in prison for the 21-year-old boy, a community service for his accomplice. With obligation to compensate THE civil parties.

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