Former actor Reuben DB caught under the influence of cocaine behind the wheel in the year that Pichal case broke out (Sint-Niklaas)
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Reuben DB (35), who had been in prison for 30 months in prison in the aftermath of the Sven Pichal case, also appeared on Monday for the police judge in Sint-Niklaas. The man was caught in April 2023 when he was behind the wheel under the influence of cocaine.
The man was arrested by the police in August 2023 after reporting to him to the police in Antwerp because he had sent serious images of child abuse to others and had also shown images at the café. In addition, Sven Pichal. For those facts, he was already sentenced in June 2024 to a prison sentence with a delay of 30 months.
But a few months before, he already ran into the lamp during a police check in the Waasland. He then turned out to be behind the wheel under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. The man did not respond several times afterwards to an invitation from the police to a further interrogation or a medical investigation.
Issabel de Fré, lawyer of Reuben d.: « My client is following intensive counseling. » – © Belga
« At the time of those invitations, however, my client was in South Africa where he had been admitted to a private clinic on his own initiative to work on his addiction, » his lawyer Issabel de Fré defended her client, who was also personally present, with the police. « Even today he is following intensive guidance. He is helped by no fewer than four therapists. Because in addition to his addiction to alcohol and drugs, there was also that addiction to sex and porn. He largely pays for all those therapies for all those therapies. »
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The man also tried to convince the judge himself that he has become a different person. “The year 2023 was a terrible year for me. But at the same time my eyes have now been opened and I realize that the things that happened are not possible. I want to do everything to put my life back on the right track. I live back home with my mother in Antwerp. I try to find work again. But in Belgium that is no longer possible. There were two employment contracts. Now to get started somewhere in the Netherlands. «
The court heard the explanation and plea of the lawyer. The former actor has his sentence on April 28. (ies)
