Europe 1 with AFP 11:28 am, November 11, 2021
He had been wanted since March, when he was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 50,000 euros.
A Parisian sleep merchant was arrested and imprisoned on Sunday for having rented twenty apartments in an unsanitary building in the 19th arrondissement of the capital.
A sleep merchant convicted in Paris in March in his absence and since targeted by an arrest warrant has been arrested and imprisoned, a judicial source said on Thursday, confirming information from the
Parisian.
Frédéric d'Aris was arrested on Sunday, according to this source.
With another man, Alix B., he was sentenced on March 10 in Paris to three years in prison and a fine of 50,000 euros.
The criminal court had found him guilty of having rented some twenty apartments in an unsanitary building in the 19th arrondissement of Paris between 2012 and 2017. With its sagging floors, rodents and cockroaches and cracks and water infiltration, the he building at 62 rue de Meaux had been the subject of a dangerous decree since 2012.
Suspected of violence against tenants
The Abbé Pierre Foundation, ten former tenants, co-owners of the building, as well as the City of Paris had become civil parties.
Suspected of threats and violence against the tenants of the apartments who refused to pay, Frédéric d'Aris had been partially acquitted of these facts.
But the man was absent at his trial, as well as the day of the judgment, which had led the justice to pronounce an arrest warrant against him.
He was also absent Monday at his appeal trial, according to the
Parisian
.
Asked Thursday morning, his lawyer Me Philippe Sarda could not be reached.