Former FC Nantes and Manchester United player tried for driving his Porsche drunk

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L’former FC Nantes player and of Manchester United Eric Djemba-Djemba was condemned this Tuesday, April 20, 2021 speak Nantes Criminal Court for ” driving while intoxicated “, after having been controlled while driving his Porsche with 1.2 g of alcohol per liter of blood on october 2020.

The check had taken place in the town of La Chapelle-sur-Erdre (Loire-Atlantique), where the former Cameroonian international has always kept a property.

Eric Djemba-Djemba – who had briefly played at the Voltigeurs de Châteaubriant in 2016, before ending his career at FC Vallorbe-Ballaigues (Switzerland) – then drew the attention of the police with his explanations “a little muddled”, his breath “which smells of alcohol” and his “shining” eyes.

He had been transferred to Manchester United for € 4.8million

Before the Nantes Criminal Court, this Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the 40-year-old former professional footballer explained that he had in fact “Found friends” that evening after “two years spent in Switzerland”.

The audience especially allowed to take news of the player, who left FC Nantes and joined Manchester United in 2003 for € 4.8 million. He then failed to win and was transferred to Aston Villa, still in England, before playing successively in Qatar, Denmark or India.

Since his retirement two years ago, the former winner of the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) in 2002 has therefore been a “volunteer educator” in an academy for young footballers in Douala (Cameroon). He is due to start in July 2021 a football coach training in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, he said. In the meantime, the former professional player has “no income” and “draws” in his savings, he explained to the judge.

His Porsche will be returned to him

From a personal point of view, the man is divorced and the father of five children born to three different mothers. From a judicial point of view, the defendant had already been the subject of a criminal order for a traffic offense in 2016. He was then fined € 300 and his driving license suspended for five months.

The public prosecutor had requested a two-month suspended prison sentence, a cancellation of his driving license and a temporary ban on driving any motor vehicle without an immobilizer alcohol test (EAD). The magistrate, however, was not opposed to the court returning the Porsche to him..

He is fined 500 euros

This confiscation would be “irrelevant”, had supported the lawyer of Eric Djemba-Djemba, Mr.^e Marie-Emmanuelle Beloncle. The judge finally settled for a fine of € 500 and a suspension of the former footballer’s driving license for six months – sanction which absorbs the administrative suspension already served.

This “financial penalty” is “the most suited to the life you lead between France and Cameroon,” she explained to the former FCN midfielder. The former professional footballer will nevertheless have to pay an additional € 127 to the public treasury, like all the defendants, for the costs generated by his trial.

GF (PressPepper)

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