Carcassonne: a Luxembourger at the helm for breaking into a house “to collect his belongings”
This Wednesday, November 3, a 20-year-old Luxembourger appeared before the Carcassonne court for trying to break into the home of a resident of the town of Rustiques.
But what was this 20-year-old Luxembourger doing in Aude on October 30, 2019? This is the question that was asked to Angel this Wednesday, November 3. He appeared before the Criminal Court of Carcassonne for attempted aggravated theft. This young man – almost silent in the defendants’ box – was accused of having tried to rob a house in the small town of Rustiques two years ago. The victim was not present at the hearing.
In search of his biological mother
That day, Angel goes to Rustics accompanied by two underage friends. To enter the house, he breaks the glass of the patio door with a kick. And bless his leg. Several witnesses assisting at the scene. A neighbor from his garden and a passerby. In one of his brief interventions in front of the floor, the nonchalant-looking boy tries to explain these facts. “I just wanted to collect my things from my friend. Jeans, a jacket and my passport.”, he declared, before his lawyer Me Issa, comes to his rescue and dresses the picture of his battered childhood. “You will have noticed, he doesn’t speak much … He is a boy who had enormous difficulties building himself. Angel was abandoned by his mother when he was 2 years old and placed in a family of Home”, she explained.
Two months closed
Despite this “structuring living environment”, as a teenager, he sets out in search of his biological mother, in search of answers. A few years later, he learned that she had taken a vacation in Occitania. First in Toulouse, then near Carcassonne. “This is why he ran away from his adoptive parents in Luxembourg to end up here”, she continues. So Angel wanders. When he is not sleeping outside, he succeeds in squatting with acquaintances he makes on the spot. Including the victim’s son with whom he sleeps from time to time. “I had to manage”, he breathed, lifeless. In the meantime, his friend and his mother – the victim – move out and put their Rustiques house up for sale. It was during this period that Angel decides to return. “Yes, he tried to break in. But he just wanted to get his things back from a place he knew was uninhabited and empty. There was nothing left to steal inside. How do you steal the nothing. ? “, a son argued lawyer.
The court decided to follow the requisitions of the public prosecutor. Angel was sentenced to two months in prison.