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He was cleaning up, in exchange she… stole more than €100,000 from him
It is a case for the less revolting which was taken this week by the correctional court of Neufchâteau. A lady from Paliseul, who does not work and has income from mutual insurance, took advantage of the kindness and weaknesses of a friend who works in an adapted work company, to steal more than €100,000 from her.
Crazy regarding speed, he leaves the police on the highway… They find him via a surveillance camera
On January 6, 2022, police officers approaching a gas station spot a BMW vehicle speeding away from the area. The license plate lamp does not work well, the police officers who cannot read the registration number, they approach by activating their blue flashing light. The BMW is still picking up speed. She brakes in front of a fixed speed camera just to avoid the souvenir photo, then continues to drive, taking a roundregarding in the opposite direction, flashing her headlights to other users to get them to move aside on the entrance to the motorway. E411. On the highway, given the power of the machine, the police car is quickly sown.
But the agents will quickly get their hands on it, thanks to the images from a camera.
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“It’s expensive the piece of meat”
+ LIRE | Two years in prison required for the theft of two pieces of meat
He is setting up a scam “worthy of a cinema film”
Four individuals have been charged in a major fraud case. The facts lasted nearly six years and reportedly earned one of the defendants more than 668,000 euros. The court relates 55 forgeries, but also meetings, phone calls, virtual exchanges, with people who pretended to be lawyers, bankers, notaries and other insurance agents.
His virtual love affair cost him €110,000
Sandra (assumed name) traveled from Lyon to take the stand. She must respond to a fraud for an amount of nearly 110,000 €. Facts which, according to the public prosecutor, must be reclassified as money laundering.
In this case, Sandra claims to be the victim of heartbreak. She was fooled by a man named Carlos. But does it really exist? Nothing is less sure. She had met him on a dating site. A virtual love affair that cost him dearly.
The sponsor of the theft of agricultural equipment escapes 18 months in prison because of the slowness of justice
A man was prosecuted for ordering the theft of agricultural equipment. He risked 18 months and the 2 thieves 12 months. But the 2-year delay between the facts and the indictment was deemed too long and unjustified.
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The court acquits him and scratches the DNF
The octogenarian, defending himself without a lawyer, was not a big hunter. But it was before the Neufchâteau criminal court that he had to explain himself for a hunting offense. What did the prosecution accuse him of on the basis of findings from the DNF? Illegal wild boar feeding. He will however be acquitted… but the court will scratch the DNF agents.
Death of a baby: the gynecologist acquitted
The facts date from April 2015 at the Saint-Joseph clinic, when a mother showed up at night at the maternity ward, when she was pregnant with a fetus that had reached the 32nd week of a difficult pregnancy. Supported by the team of three midwives, the delivery took place under the authority of the doctor on duty. The baby’s heart gave out during childbirth, it was not possible to save him.
The mother filed a complaint once morest the gynecologist whom she considers responsible for the death of her child.
The forensic report concluded “that it is impossible to classify the death of the baby in the category of manslaughter”.
Assault and assault, indecent assault: a couple from Sainte-Ode has made several children live through hell for years
a couple from Sainte-Ode are raising their 3 biological children. In 2008, he accepted to take in four children from Brussels and placed by the juvenile court, who were none other than the children of the brother of the mother of Sainte-Ode. This placement followed acts of mistreatment.
In this complex family pattern and a particularly unhealthy climate, the couple’s biological daughter accuses her own father of sexual touching and indecent assault.
Clemency for a German drug dealer from a good family
The public prosecutor had requested ten months in prison and a fine of €8,000 for the young man who was arrested in the parking lot of the Van Der Valk hotel, in Weyler (Arlon), with a bag containing 1,500 tickets of bank for a value of more than 70 000 €.
The defendant has confessed and admits that he is still a cannabis user, which forces him to make regular trips to Amsterdam. He borrowed money from his supplier and found no other way than to work for him to repay it, among other things, by traveling between Holland and Belgium to transport large sums of money .
Fatal fall in Fraiture: RTBF acquitted on appeal
The professional worker had only attached himself to the railing which gave way and had failed to secure himself to the anchor point of the tower. The Liège Court of Appeal acquitted RTBF of the criminal charge once morest it.