No sooner had he left prison when he robbed a blind man. A 21-year-old Algerian national was sentenced Tuesday, August 24, to one year in prison for assaulting a young man and stealing his cell phone, at the Trocadero, in Paris.
In the night from Sunday to Monday, around midnight, the offender was spotted by police officers, while he was walking among passers-by in this very touristy place. With another individual, he was interested in the bags and phones of passers-by. Then, as a 19-year-old man, wearing glasses and moving with a white cane, walked past them, the perpetrator took action.
He first gave a violent punch to his victim, before snatching his phone from his hands, reports The Parisian. Immediately chased by the police, he fell and knocked down the device, the window of which shattered. After seeing the thief arrested, the officers returned to the young man, aged 19, who explained to them that he was totally blind in his left eye and could only see shapes from the right.
Incarcerated again
Taken to the police station, the offender refused to give the identity of his accomplice, who had fled. The assailant was for his part well known to the police and justice, since he had already been arrested many times for thefts. He had even just been released from prison a few days earlier, on August 13.
Minimizing the facts by claiming to have acted “for fun”, the offender was sentenced to one year in prison and incarcerated again.