It was this Tuesday, June 25, 2024, that the criminal court in Huy handed down its verdict in the case of the seven-year-old who had killed his dog called Pantoufle.
The charges were deemed established by the judge, who sentenced him to two months in prison and a €2,000 fine.
Nicolas Manente’s death, mowed down on the E42 in Spy: a “villainous” hit-and-run handled by the police court
“I lied, I was too scared that night, I didn’t drink anything…” The words that Serdar K. said in front of the police court are certainly not the ones that those closest to Nicolas Manente would have wanted to hear. This 33-year-old man, originally from the Auvelais region, lost his life on the edge of the E42, near Spy. On the night of December 8, 2019, the driver did not stop. And it was only a fortnight later that the police found the trail of the main suspect.
Arson of a building in Mouscron: the suspect referred to the criminal court
During the evening of October 17, a violent explosion was heard in the garages of an apartment building on Chaussée d’Aelbeke in Mouscron. The force of the explosion had destroyed the elevator and blown out its doors on every floor.
Apartments had also been damaged with walls and ceilings on the ground.
By a miracle, about twenty residents escaped, severely shocked but unharmed.
The cause: a fire that broke out in a garage and spread to a gas cylinder in the box. Quickly there was little doubt about the intentional nature of the fire… A few weeks later a Mouscronnoise woman was arrested and brought before the coroner. The suspect is the ex-partner of a resident of the condominium. She allegedly admitted the facts by reporting setting fire to a carpet.
Charged, but released on conditions, the suspect must explain himself to the criminal court in the coming weeks.
Viroinval: for 5 years he abused his 7 children with slaps, insults, a knife, shooting with a rifle
A father born in 1982 committed abuse against 7 of his 8 children (Editor’s note: the eighth no longer lived at home), between 2015 and 2020. During this period, he also beat and harassed his partner. Given the age of the facts and the awareness of grossly inappropriate conduct, the defense requested a labor sentence at the earlier hearing. But the court decided otherwise this Wednesday morning.
Cannabis plantations in villas with 4 facades in Walloon Brabant
The court handed down a sentence commensurate with the scale of human trafficking: a total of 41 years and 6 months in prison, fines of 214,000 euros and confiscations of 115,000 euros.
The investigation of this voluminous case required three court hearings in Nivelles, where several defendants were missing. It opened thanks to the vigilance of the owner of a villa that he had rented and where he noticed suspicious developments. He alerted the police.
Hélécine: he arms himself with a spade and hits his compatriot on the head
It was on the early evening of 1 May 2023 that a lively discussion in Hélécine led to an outburst of anger, the consequences of which could have been dramatic for the victim and her assailant, who, the prosecution noted, could have been before the Assize Court for murder .
Fortunately for him, Christian P., 35, was only prosecuted for the attempted murder of his compatriot Gheorghe, whose son was asleep at the time of the incident.
17 sentenced, up to 5 years in prison, for drug trafficking in the park in Verviers
Seventeen people involved in significant hashish and cocaine trafficking in the Bois des Récollets in Verviers were sentenced on Wednesday to sentences ranging from 200 hours of community service to five years in prison by the Verviers Criminal Court.
The case began in June 2023. Police information assumed that drug dealing took place near the promenade and Bois des Récollets in Verviers.
In August 2023, a petition by residents of the Prés-Java district, who complained about the nuisance of drug trafficking in the Bois des Récollets, confirmed the assumptions.
Various police operations were then carried out which made it possible to identify 18 people born between 1970 and 2003.
Wanze: he harasses his ex with calls and messages
In many cases that land before the Huy Criminal Court, it is not uncommon to hear the parties defend different positions. Themselves or through lawyers. And when there are one or more children in the story, it is all the more sensitive. To the point, sometimes, to say that the task of the judge should not always be easy… This is somewhat the feeling that the case against this 44-year-old man, which was examined on Wednesday by the criminal court in Huy, gives. each party’s defense worked to present the other in a different light…
