Sidy C., 25, was stopped at Asnières station on Sunday 18 October 2026, the day after looting during unrest in Paris, and placed in police custody for receiving a stolen object.[1][2] He is suspected of taking a bag from a luxury leather-goods shop on rue Saint-Honoré.[1] A court later gave him eight months in prison, which Actu, citing M6, reported as a firm sentence and which La Clé Publique described as a sentence for receiving goods stolen in the 17 October looting.[3]
Officers then searched the social-housing flat in Asnières-sur-Seine where he lived and found two stolen electric scooters and 630 grammes of cannabis resin.[1][2] La Clé Publique, citing an M6 report relayed by the prefect, also reported that investigators found the stolen luxury bag at the home, two scooters suspected of being stolen, the same 630 grammes of resin and 370 euros in cash.[3]
Alexandre Brugère, prefect of Hauts-de-Seine, has said he wants to use a 2025 anti-drug-trafficking law that lets a prefect tell a social landlord to ask a judge to end a lease when an occupant’s drug-related conduct seriously or repeatedly disturbs public order.[1][2] He told M6 that theft, looting and vandalism should have consequences for social housing, which he called an expression of national solidarity, and he announced the step on 28 October.[3] Sidy C.’s relatives, who live in the same flat, would also be affected if a judge ended the lease, and no eviction has been carried out.[1]
This was not the first time the man had been arrested for drug trafficking or possession, which was given as the justification for starting the eviction procedure.[2] The social landlord has one month to refer the matter to the courts, and the eviction procedure takes on average a year and a half.[2]
