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Q: My property was damaged by a roommate [eu]

So while I was away for weekend from Saturday morning - Sunday evening, my roommate of student dorms had drinking party of some sort and my expensive PC monitor (~1000 eur) was broken, my stuff wasn't the way I left it and I've noticed my watch is missing (~90 eur). I've submitted a claim to dorms manager, the entrance guard is a witness of guests although he's responsible for letting them in (he didn't even take any sort of identification from guests), my other roommate can vouch for his drinking problems and saw him with hangover the next morning but he wasn't there during the accident as he had work. The responsible person might already have a criminal record of some sort, as I've heard he is forbidden to be within 100m of ex-gf/wife, he promised to pay me within 2 days, but nothing, his phone can't be reached. Tomorrow morning I'll speak with dorm manager again and likely go to police. What are my chances and is there anything else I can and should do?

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Gary Kollin
Gary Kollin
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  • Criminal Law Lawyer
  • Fort Lauderdale, FL

A: The first thing you should do is rewrite your claim because if it is like this submission it has many run on sentences which are confusing

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