2023-06-18 05:12:00
Find our surprising legal stories that have occurred in Wallonia over the weeks: “In court: chronicles of hearings in Wallonia”.
1/ A violent and harassing psychiatrist asks for his acquittal for “transient dementia”
A psychiatrist is prosecuted for assault and battery, threats with a knife and harassment towards his partner (and ex-patient). But his lawyer asks for his acquittal because of his “passing insanity”.
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2/ He had built without a permit: he must demolish everything
A sexagenarian had transformed an old farm into 6 apartments and 4 studios, despite a refusal of the building permit. He must destroy everything. Court order. And to be even more precise, the judges detailed the stages of the destruction plan.
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The quote of the week
“Mr. has dangerous driving that can be described as a wicked obstruction of traffic. He has already been sentenced to 40 months in prison and has a criminal record of 11 priors.”
READ the report: At 180 km/h in the Bastogne villages
4/ Two children placed in “cages”
In 2015, a mother (1948) and one of her sons (1977) were arrested for acts of abuse committed once morest two (a girl and a boy) of the six other children in the family. These, who suffered from serious psychiatric problems, were regularly locked up in two 9m² cells built in an annex to the isolated house in the countryside.
Nearly ten years following the facts (Editor’s note: a delay explained by the question of the criminal responsibility of the mother), the criminal court of Dinant looked into this file. The son was present in person to explain himself.
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5/ The house has become “a real little hamlet”
In this little isolated corner of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse, Nicolas has been leading his boat for twenty years. But the fifty-year-old has tended to take his ease, but also his distance, with urban planning legislation.
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6/ Is the driver chased at 180 km/h the right one?
A French driver domiciled in Alsace is prosecuted for armed rebellion before the criminal court of Arlon. But his lawyer claims that the driver might not be in Messancy at the time of the facts because he would have been hospitalized in Mulhouse!
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7/ The fries seller gives him a pie
While he was going to his supplier, he had not supported the arrogant attitude of a young employee then in interim.
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8/ Threats and insults in the middle of the fields
Against the backdrop of a family dispute, a fifty-year-old farmer from the town of Libin finds himself on the benches of the Neufchâteau criminal court. He is accused of a heated altercation, in November 2020, with one of his distant cousins, younger, and his mother. The scene took place in the fields.
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But also
The “Fagnes cyclist” claims 4,500 euros from the family of the girl who was knocked down in December 2020
The cyclist who had accidentally knocked down a little girl on December 25, 2020 in the Fens, believes that the broadcast of the video in which we see him hitting the child with the comment “Turn please. Urgent” had consequences for his private life and his reputation, he declared on Tuesday to the civil court of Verviers.
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Theft of 350 rabbits by around twenty vegan activists from a breeder: 3 people arrested and charged, a huge trial in sight
It was a double case of thefts of rabbits that caused a stir. The victim is the largest Walloon breeder, Christian Teller, who owns 50,000 rabbits.
On the night of December 7 to 8, 2019, the back door of one of its sheds in Aubel was forced open and at least 350 six-week-old rabbits were stolen in a few minutes and taken away in several vehicles.
In September 2020, once more at the same place, theft of 92 rabbits. These had been found in the wild… frozen to death.
For this second case, no suspect might be found. But not for the first, three people were finally able to be identified, searched, arrested and charged. The investigation is now complete and the Charleroi prosecutor’s office is demanding their referral to correctional.
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