Brussels Youths Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Violent Home Invasion in Overijse

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Two youths from Brussels who robbed a family in Overijse in March 2024 have been sentenced to an effective prison term of five years. A third suspect also received a five-year prison sentence, of which three years were suspended. The court took the facts very seriously, in which a minor boy was struck with a weapon butt and the residents were threatened with a knife.

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The Brussels Correctional Court sentenced 22-year-old Souleymane Bah to five years in prison on Wednesday for his participation in a home-jacking in Overijse on 15 March 2024, says SudInfo. Considered by the judges as the initiator of the operation, an immediate arrest was requested by the court. But the defendant was not present at his hearing. The events took place in March 2024, while two teenagers were preparing to go to school. Two men arme…