9 notable legal stories: machete blows in the street, a carolo fatally crushed by a police officer

Parricide in Frameries: 22 years in prison and mitigating circumstances

The Hainaut Assize Court handed down, this Friday, a sentence of 22 years of criminal imprisonment against Raphaël Tourtois for the murder of his father, Daniel, committed in Frameries on November 20, 2022.

The jury and the court found mitigating circumstances in favor of the convicted person.

Libin’s violent companion sentenced

A resident of Libin received a two-month prison sentence suspended for three years before the Liège Court of Appeal after being found guilty of beating his partner.

A conviction which came when the victim did not file a complaint and refused to explain the facts of which she was the target.

Indeed, it was the latter’s mother, particularly worried about her daughter’s physical integrity, who warned the authorities of the spiral of violence in which her daughter was entangled.

Quote of the week

Between spouses, as indicated in the civil code, we owe each other aid and assistance. The 65-year-old Amaytois, who appeared before the Huy criminal court on Thursday, had to defend himself for not having provided assistance to a person in danger, a person who was none other than his wife.

Charleroi: machete blows in the street, a stone’s throw from the Town Hall

On February 18 around 12:30 a.m., the local Charleroi police were called for intervention on Place Vauban, a few steps from the town hall. After some searches near Boulevard Audent, a patrol came across a man with serious injuries after having been the victim of several machete blows. The bone of one of his elbows is visible, not to mention the right little finger which hangs after having been partially cut off.

Ouassim and Sabrina affair: 2 police officers acquitted

The Brussels criminal court on Thursday revised the judgment rendered at first instance, on December 5, 2023, in the Ouassim and Sabrina case. These two young people were killed in an accident on Avenue Louise in Brussels on May 9, 2017, after a chase with the police. The three accused police officers received sentences of five, eight and ten months in prison, partially suspended.

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At 18, he got rid of his drugs at the great fire of Onhaye

A young man born in 2003 was arrested in possession of 53g of cannabis divided into around twenty packages, during the great Onhaye fire, in March 2022. The drug was in his backpack, which members of the organization asked him to open when he wanted to enter in the evening. The police, who were on site, were immediately notified.

Bus driver abuses Hannut’s Peeters trips

The case judged by the Huy criminal court this Thursday concerned a fairly pathetic scam. We are talking here, in matters of criminal law, about breach of trust, rather than fraud. But the facts established against this bus driver, now of no known address, are unpleasant.

The 4 policewomen, prosecuted after the death of Simon at the Dour festival, acquitted

The fourth criminal chamber of the Hainaut Court of Appeal on Thursday reversed the judgment pronounced on June 26, 2023 by the criminal court, which had pronounced the guilt of the four police officers for culpable abstention.