2023-10-03 12:23:06
A fifty-year-old appeared in criminal court on Tuesday for the arson of his ex-in-laws’ house. The events took place one night in May 2023. During the hearing, the defendant explained that he was depressed and had consumed alcohol and medication. “I couldn’t stand it when my ex-wife went on a trip to Sicily with her brother. To stop her from leaving, I put a piece of paper on fire in her parents’ mailbox, where she was staying,” the man detailed. The Dison resident also admits to having harassed and threatened, through messages, his wife from whom he was separated.
“By setting the house on fire, the gentleman knew very well that there were several occupants inside,” said the public prosecutor, who insists on the endangerment of other people and calls for a six-year sentence. prison for these acts.
The defendant must also answer for assault and battery and abuse of weakness against his own mother, with whom he lived. For these facts, he is asked for a year in prison.
The ex-wife, who joined as a civil party, as did the defendant’s family, returned to the couple’s difficult past. “We were independent, we always worked, we fought to obtain the situation we had. Everything changed in 2015, the day of the attack on the house on rue de la Coline in Verviers, which we owned. »
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“From that moment on, it was a descent into hell. We lost everything and didn’t get the help we needed. My husband took care of his mother, who abandoned him when he was only seven years old, when he himself needed help,” continued the ex-wife of the defendant.
Judgment is scheduled for October 27.
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