The Lille Criminal Court on Tuesday January 30 sentenced nine men to sentences of up to five years in prison for extensive waste trafficking. The main protagonist of this traffic, which led to the illegal dumping of some 10,000 tonnes of Belgian waste in France between 2018 and 2021, Johnny Demeter was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment and the revocation of two years of suspended sentence.
Seven other men, including four from the Demeter family, were sentenced to sentences ranging from 18 months to three years, and the last defendant to confiscation of sums resulting from this trafficking. “The sums awarded, if we put them end to end, are astronomical,” underlined the lawyer for associations and the commune of Rédange.