Ostend, The former owner of café Borneo in Ostend, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison, 25 of which with delay, because he is at the end of 2017 the business to put fire with a rocket. A. J. (28) itself remains, however, to deny. The owners of the totally destroyed building, still waiting on excuses and get a provisional compensation of 1 euro granted. “Hardworking people are the brunt of so’n guys”, sigh the couple.
A. J. (28) came Thursday morning personally, a punishment hearing in the city court. During the previous hearing asked his lawyer Johan Platteau to the acquittal. “If you are my client guilty states, I would like to in the sentence to see which voluntary act, he ran to the fire to start. No one in the dossier, has seen that my client, the cake in put fire. The cake is even not seized and was not described in the dossier. I set me serious questions the current research,” was the defence when. The court considered the intentional arson, however, proven and sentenced the man in his twenties to a prison sentence of 40 months, of which 25 months with delay. That is still a hefty sentence remissions, as the arsonist in default of appearance was initially sentenced to an effective prison sentence of four years.
