A simple phrase that went viral overnight. Pierre Legrand, the motorist who refused to submit to an alcohol test in Esquelbecq (North), last April, insisting “I do not contract”, must be judged this Tuesday, October 1 by the Dunkirk criminal court.
The driver will be judged for “refusal to submit to vehicle and driver checks, refusal to submit to checks relating to alcohol status, refusal to submit to checks relating to the use of narcotics, lack of insurance and intentional violence against a gendarmerie soldier without incapacity,” the court said in a press release sent last April.
“The République Française Présidence company”
On April 1, Patrick and his wife Laetitia were arrested by the gendarmes in the town of Esquelbecq, who wanted to subject the driver to an alcohol test. But the situation had taken another turn. “I don’t contract. We will not come into contact with you,” Pierre Legrand insisted to the gendarmes, refusing to carry out the test.
During this scene, filmed by his wife, the driver indicated that he did not belong to “the République Française Présidence company”, which is, according to him, “a private company since 1947”, before presenting a false identity card. and a fake driver’s license.
In this video, published by the couple, and shared massively on social networks, they use elements of language from the “sovereign beings” movement, more precisely from “legal name fraud”. “I am not contracting with you, I do not have to blow the balloon” or “in lower case, please, we are not companies”, they declared in particular.
To apprehend the two motorists, the police had to break the window of the vehicle. Pierre Legrand, the driver, risks a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros.
