Convicted of receiving Chanel products, the former employees appeal

In 2019, seven former Chanel employees were convicted at first instance for theft and concealment in criminal association after reselling the brand's products intended for destruction, between 2011 and 2014, reports

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Recently, they seized the Court of Appeal of Versailles (Yvelines).

A second hearing will therefore take place on November 3.

Can waste be stolen?

The former employees considered their condemnations disproportionate and hope, by this appeal, to find part of their savings. Among the condemned, a couple lost 84,000 euros in particular. Chanel also appealed against the court decision, after having obtained 30,000 euros in damages out of the 50,000 euros she requested. This time, the brand has announced claiming three million euros. "The earthen pot against the iron pot" thus summed up one of the lawyers of the former employees.

The issue of the status of the items resold will therefore be discussed at length during the hearing on November 3.

If a 2015 case law made it possible to establish that what was intended for the trash was no longer private property, and therefore impossible to steal, this court decision only concerned food products.

While waiting for the anti-waste law, the texts thus do not affirm anything on the current case.

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