Europe 1 with AFP
He had been wanted since March, when he was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 50,000 euros. A Parisian sleep trader was arrested and imprisoned on Sunday for having rented around twenty apartments in an unsanitary building in the 19th arrondissement of the capital.
A sleep merchant sentenced in Paris in March in his absence and since targeted by an arrest warrant was arrested and imprisoned, a judicial source said on Thursday, confirming information from the Parisian. Frédéric d’Aris was arrested on Sunday, according to this source. With another man, Alix B., he was sentenced on March 10 in Paris to three years in prison and a fine of 50,000 euros.
The criminal court had found him guilty of having rented around twenty apartments in an unsanitary building in the 19th arrondissement of Paris between 2012 and 2017. With its sagging floors, its rodents and cockroaches and its cracks and water infiltration, the he building at 62 rue de Meaux had been subject to a danger decree since 2012.
Suspected of violence against tenants
The Abbé Pierre Foundation, ten former tenants, co-owners of the building, as well as the City of Paris had joined as civil parties. Suspected of threats and violence against the tenants of the apartments who refused to pay, Frédéric d’Aris had been partially acquitted of these facts. But the man was absent at his trial, as well as on the day of the judgment, which had led the justice to issue an arrest warrant against him.
He was also absent Monday at his appeal trial, according to the Parisian. Asked Thursday morning, his lawyer Me Philippe Sarda could not be reached.