DUBAI // Eleven inmates were sentenced to nine months each this morning for endangering lives and assaulting officers during a fire to Al Qusais detention centre.
They had denied the charges before Judge Jamal Al Jubaili at the Dubai Court of Misdemeanours last month.
Prosecutors say the men set fire to their sponge mattresses and the furniture items available at the centre's Ward B. They are standing a separate trial on the arson charge at the Criminal Court of First Instance.
They were sentenced to six months in prison each for endangering lives and three months for causing Dh201.699 in damage, issuing threats to police officers, insulting them and assaulting them.
The defendants, 10 Emiratis and a stateless man, were identified as KS, ME, FB, TK, HE, EA, BS, FA, SS, KA and AJ. Their ages range from 19 to 39.
A Dubai police captain, AY, 31, testified that detainees in the ward tried to assault officers conducting an inspection.
He said the officers used pepper spray to disperse the detainees and called for backup. Twenty more officers arrived, but the detainees piled behind the ward's door to stop them from entering.
AY added that smoke then began pouring from the windows and the civil defence was called.
salamir@thenational.ae
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Spare
Profile
Company name: Spare
Started: March 2018
Co-founders: Dalal Alrayes and Saurabh Shah
Based: UAE
Sector: FinTech
Investment: Own savings. Going for first round of fund-raising in March 2019
Terror attacks in Paris, November 13, 2015
- At 9.16pm, three suicide attackers killed one person outside the Atade de France during a foootball match between France and Germany
- At 9.25pm, three attackers opened fire on restaurants and cafes over 20 minutes, killing 39 people
- Shortly after 9.40pm, three other attackers launched a three-hour raid on the Bataclan, in which 1,500 people had gathered to watch a rock concert. In total, 90 people were killed
- Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the terrorists, did not directly participate in the attacks, thought to be due to a technical glitch in his suicide vest
- He fled to Belgium and was involved in attacks on Brussels in March 2016. He is serving a life sentence in France
VEZEETA PROFILE
Date started: 2012
Founder: Amir Barsoum
Based: Dubai, UAE
Sector: HealthTech / MedTech
Size: 300 employees
Funding: $22.6 million (as of September 2018)
Investors: Technology Development Fund, Silicon Badia, Beco Capital, Vostok New Ventures, Endeavour Catalyst, Crescent Enterprises’ CE-Ventures, Saudi Technology Ventures and IFC
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