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Four months in prison, it is the sentence to which a young driver was sentenced for having fled his responsibilities by not stopping at a control on the night of Thursday to Friday in Ariège. He was driving without a license, under the influence of narcotics… and in addition left his wife and 8 month old child in the car to escape before being arrested.
Thursday evening August 20, the gendarmes had believed that the driver would stop by himself. in the end, they will have had to make a great effort to stop it. It is 9:50 p.m. in St-Jean-du-Falga, the Pamiers gendarmes, assisted by their colleagues from the motorized brigade (BMO) of Foix, are organizing a coordinated check. They stop a driver. The latter complied at the start then “changed his mind and fled at a very brisk pace”, indicates a press release from the gendarmerie. Further on, “a soldier from the gendarmerie surveillance and intervention platoon (Psig) throws the harrow” under the car. One of the tires of the fugitive’s car bursts.
He abandons wife and child!
“Despite this, the driver continues his journey without stopping, underline the gendarmes. Chased by the Psig and the BMO, the fugitive abandons his vehicle 100 meters further and runs off, leaving his wife and 8-month-old child in the car. He was immediately arrested by the military. “
The driver is placed in police custody for refusing to comply, driving while having been the subject of narcotics, illicit use of narcotic products and driving without a driving license. Presented before the public prosecutor on August 21, the fugitive is tried in court on prior admission of guilt for the aforementioned facts to which are added older facts of driving a vehicle without a driver’s license, possession of narcotics and non-execution of a citizenship course pronounced as a penalty.
He was sentenced to 4 months’ imprisonment with a two-year probationary period.
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