Thionville. “To eat”, he vandalized cars then set them on fire

No doubt, a priori. This Monday, December 16, the defendant presented for immediate appearance at the Thionville judicial court admits the facts with which he is accused. Attempts and thefts from vehicles initially, then car fires secondly, still in Thionville, a few days ago. Why burn cars? “So as not to leave fingerprints,” replies blandly the forty-year-old with a clean record, who, after leaving his first police custody, did not wait long to start visiting vehicles again in order to recover a few euros, a telephone , glasses… Just one day. In the end, his “fishing” will have been meager, considering the damage suffered by the victims.

“I was so hungry”

“I was so hungry, my partner had left me, she took care of everything, I stole only to be able to eat”, testifies the Mosellan who almost caused a major fire mobilizing the firefighters and causing the evacuation of ‘a building with a social vocation, Basses-Terres district. “Do you realize the consequences which could have been dramatic? », tries to get the president, Roxana Moïse, to react. “I’m sorry,” replied the accused in front of a room full of victims of his repeated actions. Some were unable to go to work the same day or even had to undergo treatment.

Beyond the requisitions of the prosecution

For the public prosecutor, the thirty facts for which Saïd Hebbache

appears deserves a sentence of twenty-four months in prison. The court will go further: thirty months in prison, including six months with probation. His continued detention was ordered, as was the obligation to compensate the victims, to undergo psychological treatment and to work.