Apparently, he started a course of treatment to end his addiction to weed. It was time. Because since 2013, this 40-year-old bricklayer has accumulated convictions, especially for driving without a license and under the influence of drugs. “It has been going on for 11 years,” the president of the Criminal Court of Fontainebleau pointed out to him, before whom he appeared for two new acts of the same nature committed on April 13 in Cannes-Ecluse and on October 20, 2023 in Avon.
That day, the forty-year-old had borrowed his boss’ Fiat without telling him and was stopped by the police because a traffic light didn’t work. They noticed that the man behind the wheel was driving without a license and under the influence of drugs. A few months later, the same man was checked again by the police in Cannes-Ecluse. It must be said that he drove his Nissan with a joint in his mouth. Of course, the driver has no driver’s license or even insurance, and unsurprisingly, he tests positive for drugs.
The prosecutor criticizes “his total disregard for other road users”
Placed in custody for a period, the bricklayer ended up being put on semi-release in the center of Melun to serve a three-month prison sentence he already had hanging over his head. “The fines, the suspended sentences, the information courses and now the prison, and you continue to take risks,” the president remarks, to the forty-year-old who came alone to defend himself. “With prison I realized I had to stop doing stupid things,” he replied in a shy voice.
For the public prosecutor, Arnaud Faugère, the defendant is “not completely lost to society”. But for all that, he stresses its “dangerousness because of its roots in drugs”. In his indictment, the judge also criticizes “his total contempt for other road users” and demands that the defendant be sentenced to 18 months in prison, of which eight months are suspended for three years, with a duty to care, work and repeat the driver’s license. “The fixed part can be achieved in the form of semi-freedom,” he specifies, asking in passing for the confiscation of his Nissan.
Ultimately, the defendant will continue to work during the day and sleep in jail at night. After discussing the case, the court actually sentenced him to 12 months in prison, including six months suspended for two years and a fixed part to be served under the semi-parole scheme.
