The Walloon Brabant correctional court on Tuesday sentenced Youssef F., a resident of Perwez born in 1997, to ten months suspended prison sentence for what exceeds preventive detention and to a fine of 8,000 euros for prejudices in connection with the drugs, as well as a fifteen-month suspended prison sentence also for malicious obstruction of traffic.
After the VW Golf driven by the defendant was involved in a hit and run in Louvain-la-Neuve in September 2019, it was spotted by the police. Seeking to escape, the driver intentionally crashed into the patrol car. He subsequently lost control of the vehicle, which ended up against the wall of a college in Court-Saint-Étienne. The police found money and drugs in the car.
The defendant had already been sentenced in correctional for facts related to narcotics. After he crashed his Golf at Court-Saint-Étienne, the police intercepted his passenger – who got away with a 100-hour working sentence – found more than 3,000 euros in small bills and a mobile phone. Operation of the device resulted in conversations on Snapchat using codes to place drug orders.
Heard, the young man who was at the time a student in economics affirmed against all evidence that he did not understand that the police were pursuing him, and that he had believed on the contrary when he heard the injunctions coming from the patrol vehicle that he was ordered to move around. He also explained that he panicked because he did not have a driver’s license.
Released on condition after a period of preventive detention, he was again arrested in possession of cannabis.
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