Four young people are being prosecuted before the Hainaut Criminal Court, Mons division, for having issued MDMA to minors under the age of sixteen, with the circumstance that one teenager suffered serious consequences following this consumption. . This drug, composed of a stimulant amphetamine and consumed for recreational purposes, was more than 93% pure. A lethal rate.
A four-year sentence was requested once morest the young woman who sold drugs to minors. Sentences of one year have been requested once morest the three other defendants. A probationary stay was proposed by the prosecution.
Three sick teenagers
On December 1, 2018, a teenager was hospitalized in the emergency room at the Ambroise Paré hospital. His friend explains to the police that they consumed MDMA in a young woman. He too is sick and hospitalized. Another teenager is taken care of, the same night, at Saint-Joseph hospital. They all have the same symptoms: sweating, vomiting, tremors, …
The first teenager falls seriously ill, his kidneys stop working, the liver is damaged. He was taken to the emergency room at Erasme in Brussels, in a state of heart failure. The vital prognosis is then engaged. The teenager will get out of it, but has serious consequences.
According to the public prosecutor, the two other teenagers also suffered physical and psychological consequences following this consumption.
According to the deputy prosecutor, “the quantities of MDMA found in the blood of the victims were lethal”. Me Fabrice Guttadauria, who defends the 23-year-old saleswoman, specifies: “that shit was 93% pure.”
Seller under arrest warrant
On December 2, 2018, the young woman who sold the drugs was placed under an arrest warrant. She confesses that she sells for the money. According to the buyers, she knew very well that she was selling drugs to minors. Since she had no ecstasy, she offered them MDMA.
At her home, the police found equipment used to sell drugs, as well as narcotics. The young woman, who sank into drugs following personal tragedies, was released on conditions in March 2019.
Two other young people, who participated in the group purchase of MDMA, were arrested and also returned to court. They say that at the time, they consumed and sold in the festive, student and artistic world of Mons.
Since the facts, the defendants have turned the page on drugs, with scientific evidence in support. The lawyers asked not to mortgage their professional and social future and pleaded for favorable measures, namely the suspension of the pronouncement of the conviction or the work sentence.
Only one asked for his acquittal, contesting being the supplier of the other defendants.