On Monday, November 21, the students of the Bourdelle high school attended a speech by the Prévention Maif association in the Olympe-de-Gouges room, together with the public prosecutor and the president of the court. Objective: to raise awareness of the risks of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
“For me, repression and prevention do not go without each other. Both things must be done”, said the prosecutor of Montauban, Bruno Sauvage, on the sidelines of the non-trivial Court operation, on Monday 21 November in the courtroom. Organized for the second time by the Prévention Maif association, the aim was to make young people aware of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and its consequences.
From 14:00 to 16:00, about thirty students from two final classes of the Bourdelle high school, accompanied by their CPE, a teacher and two educational assistants, attended various speeches on this subject in the courtroom of Olympes. renewed the operation because the high school was an applicant, and it had worked well last year with the BTS”, justified José Lorenzati, co-responsible with Michel Chenu of the operation at the association. For the CPE present at the intervention, Camille Terrier, “it’s important to do everything to make them aware of the danger.” “Our department has a significant number of road deaths. We see it at the high school level, with at least one death a year,” she confides.
Video, testimony and speech by the prosecutor
Even the choice of location is symbolic according to the association. “Psychologically, it is a different state of mind than in the courtroom. Here we are in the temple where justice is done. It is more concrete”, explains José Lorenzati. In detail, awareness-raising began with a speech by the president of the court, Sylvaine Reis, which was followed by the screening of two films, one of which focused on the reconstruction of an accident which caused the death of two people, and the second on the trial of the young person responsible for the accident. A volunteer from the association also testified, whose son died in a car accident.
“If I’m here today it’s to prevent you from ending up here later. And it’s not easy standing in front of you, but telling you all this is necessary. invincible,” she pointed out at the end of her testimony. Finally, the prosecutor closed the session by recalling, through some examples, the dangers and penalties incurring in these cases of driving. At the end, the students then asked some questions, in particular about some procedures during a trial, before returning to school.
