A 35-year-old Alsatian, a former long-distance runner relatively well known in the region, was sentenced in 2019 by the Colmar criminal court to eight years in prison.

Penalty he is serving.

He was blamed for the fire of 24 buses, 79 cars, two trucks, an unoccupied house and having punctured about 3,000 tires of 800 cars, recall the

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No less than 77 civil parties have claimed around three million euros in compensation for material and moral damage.

In his judgment rendered on Monday, the individual was finally ordered to pay a total of 332,000 euros in damages.

He will also have to pay several thousand euros in legal fees.

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But who is the “serial puncher” of tires that strikes at Sélestat?

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Alsace: A man sentenced to eight years in prison for having torched 27 buses and 88 cars

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