four years in prison

The defense lawyer had pleaded the confusion of sentencing last month. The Thionville Criminal Court had given itself a few weeks before rendering its judgment concerning two men prosecuted for a series of thefts, concealment, attempted thefts committed between the summer of 2020 and March 2021 around Thionville.

The two men arrested at a Traveler reception area in March 2021 have already been tried by the Metz Court of Appeal for the same type of offense, committed using the same modus operandi. They have been in jail ever since.

“It’s the same file”, had annoyed their lawyer during the hearing in Thionville. The council had not masked its incomprehension to see the case thus divided. “If my clients had been followed for months by the investigators, if they were clearly recognized on the video surveillance, then why weren’t they arrested before? “, he had also questioned.

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Businesses targeted at night

The Thionville court sentences each of the defendants to four years in prison. Teddy Fourneau, 29, and Claude-François Jouard, 43, are being held in detention.

The magistrates of Thionville go beyond the requisitions of the prosecutor but they grant the request of the defense by pronouncing the confusion of this sentence with that pronounced by the Court of Appeal of Metz.

The two men will have to compensate the victims, individuals but also DIY or bedding businesses. According to the procedure, the duo targeted stores at night, driving stolen cars that were later found burned.

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