Moroccan Migrant with Multiple Aliases Jailed for Phone Theft on French Train

Convicted 12 times in the past by the juvenile court, Fayçal, a young Moroccan migrant who arrived in France in 2015, is known under 12 different nicknames, reports actu.fr. At the time, the young man already had 12 criminal records, including for transport and possession of category D weapons, insults and death threats against a public authority, or receiving stolen goods, the same source indicates.

Even though Fayçal swears he is only 17 years old, his bone examinations clearly indicate otherwise and reveal his majority, the same media specifies.

Recognizable with a sleeveless vest, scar on the nose, this unaccompanied minor was arrested at the Poissy (Yvelines) station for also attempting to steal a second phone from a man’s bag. The latter will alert the police when he gets off the train.

Moreover, the phone he had stolen from a woman on this train was eventually found in a bush, near the bus stop where he was apprehended. Once at the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine police station, the defendant refused to have his fingerprints compared with those in the national police database of offenders, the same media claims. The young Moroccan was finally sentenced to 4 months in prison by the Versailles criminal court with a committal order issued at the end of the hearing.