“I wasn’t driving! The defendant does not wait for the presiding judge to raise the case to claim his innocence. The problem is that the police have clearly identified him.
On June 3, 2022, mid-morning, around 10, the patrol was in the car, at the crossroads between the Chaussée d’Océanie and the Route de la Briquerie in Thionville. A car passes under their noses at full speed, runs at a red light. The police find her a little further on, stopped by a line of stopped cars. Officers approach the vehicle. They try to control the young motorist but he starts running again, slips between the cars in front of him, placed on the two lanes of traffic. Even if it means damaging their bodywork. The driver throws a bag containing twenty grams of cocaine and flees.
The license plate will identify the owner of the car. He is heard a month after the fact, in police custody. Police recognize him but the boy claims he was at his girlfriend’s house in Briey on 5 June. His phone, turned off the day of the escape, does not allow him to verify it. He explains that his car was stolen. But he’s been waiting all this time to report it. “From the beginning, the police had a priori my client,” complains his lawyer, Me Poulin.
License cancellation
The prosecutor recalls that the defendant, 21 years old, was subject to suspension of his license following drunk driving. So he had a lot to lose.
The court follows, also accredits the version of the carabinieri and condemns the owner of the vehicle beyond the requests of the prosecution. Inflicts a fine of 200 euros for grilling fire. As well as two months suspended prison sentence for refusal to comply and six months suspended prison sentence for hit and run, drug possession and driving despite a suspended license. The defendant is not going to have the right to drive. Because justice this time cancels his license and forbids him to iron it before the four months. He has ten days to appeal.
