Between Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet and Maury, a fight between motorists degenerated to the point of ending with the referral to a court of two protagonists. A case which seemed simple but which, in the end, required nearly two and a half hours of hearing. And ends with prison terms.
Between Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet and Maury, two brothers drive a Peugeot when their progress is slowed down by a semi-trailer. The driver tries to pass, but the truck suddenly swerves, preventing him from overtaking. Furious, he repeated his successful maneuver a little further. He does not hesitate to show his dissatisfaction by slamming the brakes in front of the truck. The two occupants of the Peugeot and the driver of the truck meet a few kilometers downstream, on an area. And this is where everything goes wrong.
“I came knocking on the driver’s window, the passenger got out and kicked me. He knocked me to the ground, my gold chain was ripped off and my cell phone stolen.”, says the driver. Which will then be taken care of by the firefighters and taken to the hospital to treat abrasions and bruises. A complaint is filed and the two brothers are arrested near Perpignan. Then judged.
“The truck driver joined us in the parking lot and got out of his truck with an iron bar. He smashed the window on the passenger side. We wanted to get away, but the car got stuck. So, I pushed him. to defend myself. I handed him the chain that had been torn off during the altercation. The tension then eased and he offered to pull us out of the mud. I saw a cell phone on the ground, j I thought it was mine because it is identical “.
Sentenced to 8 and 12 months in prison
“Perhaps the driver has exaggerated some points, agrees the prosecutor, but obviously, if the defendant had respected the law by avoiding taking the wheel, nothing would have happened. Because he was driving without a license and without insurance. One of the defendants has 19 mentions in his record, the other 11. And there are recurrences “. It requires 12 months firm against the driver, 8 months against the passenger.
“We noticed that the passenger side window was broken, there is still glass in the car.re, counter attack Me Maynar, and there are many marks of stagnation and my client has marks of blows on the shoulder. They tell me about theft with violence. He just picked up a phone by mistake. “
“The driver says he stopped first and my clients stopped to do battle, continues the second defender, Me Nassier. How is that possible since he was following them? In fact, we started from the assumption that the first to file a complaint is telling the truth. He denied taking them out of the ditch when the tension eased. And wearing, my client took a photo at that time. The complainant had therefore lied. He was afraid of losing his job after breaking the window, so much for the complaint! “
The driver was released from the theft but was sentenced to 12 months in prison with continued detention for the other charges. The passenger, he hears himself pronounce 8 months, the flight with violence is reclassified as a simple flight.
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