Qasim was sentenced to 1 year in absentia for the theft of the Ford Fiesta. He came back to explain himself on opposition. And his explanations struggle to convince: “The keys were on the ignition. I got in the car and went to Uccle to pick up my daughter”. A happy “chance” for a forty-year-old who has been flying for more than 20 years…
“It was not a shared car”, moved substitute François Bury, “You may have had an emergency but the owner of the car may also have obligations with his car”. He recalled Qasim’s 6-page criminal record and requested confirmation of the default judgment.
The defense, on the other hand, pleaded a labor sentence: “He went to pick up his daughter and took her home by tram. When the police came to find him, he directly indicated where he had parked the stolen car and where he had left the keys. He is a boy with a chaotic journey. His mother abandoned him and his 6 siblings. His father was sick and he ended up in boarding school. He sank into alcoholism and delinquency. In 2018, he had stabilized, he was working in a restaurant but he was made redundant in 2020 with the Covid and he plunged again. Today, he tries again to go up the slope. »
Judgment will be delivered on March 24.