One year in jail for a repeat offender who hit his neighbor with a machete

The Court of Saint-Martin issued on Thursday, April 6 an arrest warrant against J.E.C, a young man of 25 years old, sentenced to one year in prison and €750 in damages for violence with a weapon on L.B, soon to be 18 years old.

The accused, absent at the hearing, had on December 23, hit his neighbor with a machete. On December 23, J.E.C requests money to Mrs. B., his neighbor. As she refuses, he starts to damage her car. It is at this moment that L.B, the son of Ms. B., arrives.  He chased the individual who harassed his mother. But not for long. J.E.C returned a little later and hit him with a machete of 57 cm. After a chase, L.B managed to outrun his neighbor. When he goes back home, he sees him close to his house, he had found him nearby. He grabs the machete and is about to take revenge. But suspecting his attacker to be armed, he gives up. The injury J.E.C caused on L.B earned him six points of stitches but no ITT. He is sentenced to one year in jail in 2014 for identical offenses and on the other hand for the use, possession, and transport of crack cocaine, he is sentenced to one year in prison and to pay €750 in damages to the victim and his mother who have filed a lawsuit. "It's unacceptable! He is a repeat offender, he smokes crack, gets angry and will hit people, this deserves to be in jail” had declared the Deputy Prosecutor Michaël Ohayon before requesting a penalty of two years in prison.