A man was sentenced to three years in prison, including 26 months suspended probation for having set fire to his lawyer’s office in Bobigny in September, the lawyer announced on Tuesday. The man would have acted because he “was unhappy because the procedure was not progressing fast enough for his liking”, explained the victim.
A man was sentenced to three years in prison, including 26 months suspended probation for having set fire to his lawyer’s office in Bobigny in September, the lawyer announced on Tuesday. “I am leaving the hearing, he was sentenced to three years including 26 months (with) suspended probation with a ban on contact and coming to my office”, wrote Monday evening on Twitter Me Catherine Herrero, who has been practicing since. 29 years old as a lawyer.
The man “displeased because the procedure was not progressing fast enough for his liking”
On September 13, his office, located rue Pierre Semard in Bobigny, near the courthouse, was set on fire by one of his clients. The man broke the front door, the door of the cabinet, empty at that time and set it on fire, traced to AFP Me Herrero, photos of the cabinet upside down in support.
“He was unhappy because the procedure was not progressing fast enough for his liking. There had been no threats before,” she said a few days after the fact. “I have 60% of my firm’s files destroyed. For my foreign clients, the file will have to be reconstructed. Sometimes there were originals,” lamented the lawyer specializing in foreigners’ rights.
“Devastated”, she regretted an act which “especially harms customers”. “Fortunately there is the solidarity of the lawyers, otherwise I would have given up,” she added. Monday evening she said she was “relieved” on Twitter. “I will be able to move on but sad for this man because I am and will remain a lawyer above all,” she wrote.