Kevin had sold his electronic bracelet on Marketplace… for 450 euros: he was arrested!

Journalist in the General Editorial Office
Published on 09/25/2024 at 6:30 p.m.

We thought that our article (published in our columns this Friday, September 20) was going to ruin its sale and well, not at all! Kevin claims to have managed to sell his electronic bracelet, at the price of €450 (instead of the €300 displayed). “I sold it to a rapper from the Brussels region who was looking for one to make a music video,” explains this resident of Morlanwez, a former convict for computer hacking.

Kevin, let’s remember, had served his sentence (9 months under a bracelet) but the electronic monitoring center did not come to collect the equipment and had advised Kevin… to cut his bracelet himself. What he had done. He then received a bill for €1,500 for not having returned the device. After paying his debt, he felt that the device was now his and he put it up for sale on Marketplace. Case and bracelet priced at €300. “I already have around twenty fans! “, he rejoiced Thursday. Among which are people wanting to study the deactivation mechanism closely… Not very reassuring to learn all this.

On the side of the general management of the houses of justice (which depends on the Wallonia-Brussels Federation), which manages electronic surveillance, we were told that on average 3 people out of 100 never return their bracelet, which, according to our calculations, brings to 130 the number of bracelets left in nature each year! She added that “any person who wishes to resell unreturned equipment is exposed to prosecution”. These risks of legal action did not prevent Kevin from reselling his bracelet…