Pavel C., who attacked a house in Eindhoven where a mother and her child were sleeping, has been sentenced to six years in prison. The Pole (29) received this sentence on appeal and is two years longer than he initially received. In 2023, the man threw Molotov cocktails onto a balcony near a room where a mother and her son were sleeping. A fire then broke out there. The court finds the earlier and lighter sentence ‘does not do sufficient justice to the seriousness of the facts’.
On the night of January 14, 2023, Pavel C. and another man throw a number of burning Molotov cocktails at the balcony of an apartment on Biarritzplein in Eindhoven. In the room near the balcony, a woman and her then 2-year-old son are sleeping on the couch.
Soon after throwing the Molotov cocktails, the apartment is ablaze. The woman manages to escape the sea of flames with her child. Earlier that evening, the men had already thrown a beer bottle through the bedroom window.
Social media
The reason for the act was an insulting post on social media, which the men were said to be furious about. The two are said to have slept in the woman’s house earlier that week and knew exactly where she was.
There seems to be no doubt about Pavel C.’s guilt, which is why he was previously convicted. CCTV footage shows him setting the fire. He also posted about his act on social media. “I have burned a whore… I have killed her, let the whore be burned,” he wrote, among other things.
Substantial compensation
In addition to the prison sentence, C. must pay five thousand euros in damages to the woman’s son. In addition, compensation of just over fifteen thousand euros is included for the material and immaterial damage suffered by the woman. He must pay this compensation together with his co-suspect.