2023-09-13 14:57:00
During 2020, police officers in the Lesse and Lhomme area received information that an 18-year-old young man from the region was selling cannabis with his mother. An investigation was opened and quickly turned out to be positive. “He had more or less 35 customers. A third person was involved in this trafficking. The drugs were deposited at his home and he paid for them once the goods were sold,” indicates the Namur public prosecutor’s office.
This young dealer claims that he got his supplies from a resident of Liège. One of his friends acted as intermediary. “I started selling because I smoked. When I saw that it worked well, I sold more,” explains the person concerned. But the latter was a little too greedy and ended up contracting a debt with his supplier.
“He thought he was going to be burned alive.”
On July 13, 2020, the Rochefortois fell into an ambush when he showed up for an appointment set by his supplier and his intermediary. The first man, always accompanied by his acolyte, hit him, forced him into the trunk of a car and took him to the middle of the fields. “He put a gun to my head and told me that I had to quickly return the money to him,” the young man explains before the Dinant criminal court. His lawyer evokes the traumatic nature of this scene. “There was a can of gasoline in the trunk. He thought they were going to burn him alive. ”
A few days later, the intermediary, this time accompanied by another person, went to the young dealer’s home to beat him once more because he still had not repaid his debts.
Without a lawyer, the defendant suspected of having put one of his clients in the trunk of his car and of having put a gun to his head contests the entirety of the charges with which he is accused. He therefore pleads for acquittal while the prosecution demands five years once morest him. “I come from Liège and apart from one person (Editor’s note: the intermediary), I don’t know anyone. “Relay antennas activated? It’s because he was seeing a woman from Marche whose identity he doesn’t want to reveal. They sometimes came for a walk in Rochefort. His cell phone that he didn’t want to give to investigators? It was his private life, it was none of their business. The air-soft weapon found at his home, recognized by the victim? Many weapons look similar… The man also has no explanation for the fact that two co-defendants were talking regarding him in messages before the investigation even began.
The counsel for the other defendants each highlighted the age of the facts and requested a favorable measure. Judgment on October 11.
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