
Kevin Guechtal, 31, left prison mid-December. He is alone, without a job or home. So, to make some money, on January 13 and 16, he steals bottles of rum to resell them. On the 18th, he did it again and degraded the anti-theft device on a PS5 console without taking it away.
He is a repeat offender. He admits the facts without difficulty. He does not want to be accommodated by his family because as a child, he was placed in a foster home because of his father’s violence. In addition, he sees a psychiatrist every month to treat his bipolar disorder.
Two months in prison
His criminal record includes 17 convictions, most of them for theft and receiving stolen goods. He is followed by a sentence enforcement judge who is a little tired of seeing him regularly and who requests the revocation of two suspended sentences, five months in prison in total which the deputy prosecutor proposes to increase by eight months in prison. closed with warrant of committal and 200 € fine.
The defense lawyer, Maxence Sarlin, insists on the modest amount which proves that he only steals to improve his daily life. He wants only one of the reprieves to be revoked so that it can still be followed. The court found him guilty and “uses his intelligence»: he does not issue a committal warrant and does not revoke previous reprieves. Kevin Guechtal is sentenced to two months in prison and a fine of €80.