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Hérault: he fights with a co-defendant in full hearing, evacuated, he breaks everything in the cell

Four individuals were suspected of having committed numerous thefts.

The case promised to be complicated. Complicated by the number of thefts committed in several municipalities and in particular in Agel. Also complicated by the character of one of the defendants, rather vehement, insolent and confessing only when he had no other option.

The prison sentences handed down were from five years, plus six months for identity theft and continued detention, to seven months without a committal warrant. On the other hand, all four are banned from staying in the Hérault for a period of five years.

Mass flights

In the defendants’ box, they were three to share the bench, placed in pre-trial detention, and in the courtroom, a young woman left free until her trial.

Facing the judges, four individuals, one of whom has a record of 17 convictions. This one, under his good-natured air, hides his game well and multiplies thefts of all kinds. Another, easily tearful, dreams of himself as a linguist, but wishes to learn in the field and not in a classroom.

A seasonal unemployed woman has committed some misdeeds, but “betrayed justice”, according to President Barbier and finally the last, the one by whom the problems will happen, is known for his thefts with violence and insults. They all express regret. “No, you only regret one thing, and that is to be caught”, pushes the president down.

The suspects were arrested in Agel, in a house they had broken up. The inhabitants of the small town of 240 souls have shown incredible solidarity. This greatly helped the investigators of the gendarmerie. They, each with their own means, monitored the village, thus managing to give a license plate number which made it possible to trace them back to an unoccupied house and therefore to the arrest of four individuals. The soldiers then discovered there a real Ali Baba cave of objects coming from very numerous thefts.

An accused stands out

Among the four defendants, three did not pose much of a problem, acknowledging one or two facts, but not without trying everything to reduce their involvement. It was the fourth who monopolized the debates, first of all because he had delivered a false identity but also because he contested everything until the magistrates demonstrated, one by one, the video images showing him. cause. There, he admitted, lip service, having been present, facing the evidence, but not much more.

An attitude which greatly annoyed the magistrates, President Barbier in the lead, who was being taken back by the accused who could not stand his “humor”.

The prosecution having requested, the civil parties too, it only remained for the defense lawyers to come and help their client to spend as little time as possible behind bars. This is where the lead actor unleashed his beating on his neighbor, pummeling him and thus destroying all negotiations. Outraging the court, he was evacuated from the courtroom and smashed everything in the court cell. He will have to explain it in a few days during a new trial.

The defense was taken aback

Three of the four lawyers of the defendants could try to propose solutions for their client. Finding the words to try to reduce the sentences required by the prosecution is never easy. But this pleads. For the fourth, the fight in the box of the defendants was the point of no return. So much so that the lawyer pleaded, to everyone’s surprise: “He needs, faced with such behavior, a prison sentence which cannot be revised downwards on appeal by the magistrates of Montpellier.”


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