Saturday evening, an 18-year-old Roubaisien refused a police check and accelerated with his car in the direction of a municipal police officer. Arrested he was to be tried this Monday in immediate appearance. But his trial was called off.
The official had to swerve so as not to be struck on Saturday evening in a pedestrian street where the vehicle was located.
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The man behind the wheel, aged 18, was to be tried on Monday in immediate appearance. In court, he contested that he wanted to hurt the police. But he will have to come back and explain himself another time. Because Monday, the judges considered that the court was not correctly seized, a procedural error preventing them from judging the young man.
This error took place during the deferral of the defendant before the prosecutor. In that hearing, the individual said: “ I don’t know why I am here. The municipal police did anything in their procedure “… These words were recorded by the magistrate, explains the newspaper The voice of the North.
« These are comments related to the alleged facts »Will report Me Baptiste Buissart, the defendant’s lawyer. However, the Penal Code mentions that the prosecution cannot question the accused on the facts, in the absence of his lawyer. This infringement of the rights of the defense entails the nullity of the procedure. The defendant was released. It will be reconvened later.
