On July 27, during the night, a fast moving utility vehicle was chased by a police patrol in Thionville. The white van accelerates at the sight of the flashing light then ends up stopping a few kilometers further.
Standing on the sidewalk, the two utility men, colleagues, accuse each other of being the driver. After a few minutes, the driver confesses. He is under an electronic bracelet and refuses to be challenged. He resists, struggles violently injuring a police officer, and manages to evade the officers.
But his bag left in the cabin of the vehicle will allow investigators to identify and apprehend him the next morning at his home in Montigny-lès-Metz.
The 31-year-old delivery driver, who was checked while he was on duty, was convicted last May for driving under the influence of narcotics and had his driver’s license canceled for one. duration of twenty months.
A “detail” that he had carefully omitted to transmit to his employer for “fear of losing his first CDI”.
“Driving to work keeps my head up”
“We understand the efforts you are making to integrate yourself, but we wonder about the risk you take by driving a vehicle despite the ban imposed on you”, tackles President Alexandre Gantois.
“Your lawyer filed a medical certificate, what is it? », Questions Ludovic Louet for the Public Prosecutor’s Office. “I took hits that night. I was the one who suffered violence, ”replied the defendant without being disassembled. “It’s because you didn’t allow yourself to be challenged. It is all the same the policeman who had two days of ITT. Not you ”, continues the representative of the prosecution.
And this one to get carried away: “Immediate appearance (CI) in May 2020, in May 2021 and in July 2021, when are you going to assume? You had to break down your door because you didn’t show up. “With 16 CI on the clock and six years in prison pronounced against him since 2007,” Monsieur is in a headlong rush. “
A sentence of eight months’ imprisonment with a warrant of committal is required against him. “He took the wheel because he wanted to keep his job,” insists the Defense. “Driving to work allows me to keep my head up,” blows the defendant who will be sentenced to six months in prison with a committal warrant and a driving ban for three months.
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