2023-07-21 18:34:35
On Wednesday, this 30-year-old delivery driver from the North, whose criminal record has 18 mentions, including six for violence or threats once morest a spouse, had written two SMS to an SNCF platform: one indicated “terrorist alert” and the other the number of a Paris-Lille train, according to SNCF lawyer, Me Vincent Domnesque. After telephone investigations, he and his companion were arrested as soon as they arrived at Lille station.
For a train delay
Both recognize the facts, which led to the interruption of traffic, the emergency evacuation of the two Lille stations, one of which for three hours, and the intervention of dozens of national police officers, the Raid, demining services, soldiers and firefighters. They explained that they had come from Gironde, where they recently moved, because they had an appointment to visit their child placed in Pas-de-Calais.
After a delay of their first train, they issued this alert in the hope of triggering checks which would delay the Paris-Lille and allow them to catch the scheduled connection, detailed the court. “It’s just human stupidity this case,” said at the hearing Me Zouheir Zairi, the lawyer for the companion, a 27-year-old caregiver, presented by the court as the instigator of the false alarm. “All she wanted was to see her child”, and there was “underestimation of the consequences of a false alarm”. They made “the choice to wreak havoc […] while even by missing their train, they would have been on time for their appointment, “argued the prosecution, highlighting the” gigantic financial damage “.
Two years imprisonment
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