“I’m terribly sorry”
Faced with the judge, the 56 -year -old man did not try to minimize the facts. Without tongue in wood, he admitted having already led after drinking in the past, but never in such a state of drunkenness. “I don’t think I realized what I was doing. When you are sober, you know you shouldn’t drive. When you are drunk, you tell yourself that you can still go home …”, did it have in front of the media.
Holding his tears, the Flemish actor Tom Waes confides his shame after his accident: “I do not hide that I had drunk too much”
Tom Waes expressed himself with emotion about the consequences of his act: “I want to apologize very sincerely, especially with the victims and the people I have put in danger.” He revealed having had a conversation with the man injured in the accident, a road professional, whom he described as “Very human and warm”.
If he did not meet him face-to-face, the actor, who notably played in the famous Undercover series, gave a little more details on this conversation. “The first thing I did after my coma wake up was to contact him. I sat and I talked to him. It touched me a lot”, said the actor. “He said to me, ‘What people often forget about our work is that we are always the first on the spot. It is we who must warn emergency services.”
Ethylotest anti-starters, provisional removal of the license and fine: here is what the prosecution requires to Tom Waes
The prosecution requires a driving prohibition and an ethylotst. His lawyer, August Blomme, pleaded for leniency, describing a client plagued by shame. “I have never met someone with so much guilt”he said. Tom Waes will know his sentence on May 26.
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