It's a real little traveling grocery store that this 23-year-old young man, living in Ornans, brought with him this Saturday, October 26, to the Lons Electronic Festival, a techno music festival organized in Juraparc.
Sponsored by his suppliers in the Planoise district of Besançon, with whom he usually worked, the young man had to resell as many drugs of all kinds as possible to a captive clientele that he had the opportunity to meet at this type of event. He had on him a whole assortment of narcotics (cocaine, crack, LSD, MDMA, cannabis resin bars, bags of hallucinogenic mushrooms, GHB or ecstasy tablets, etc.).
A room dedicated to cannabis cultivation
Around 2:40 a.m., the behavior of a friend who accompanied her attracted the attention of the festival security services. The police intervene. Then while in police custody, they carried out a search of the man's home, in Doubs. There, the gendarmes discovered an entire room devoted to the cultivation of cannabis, its packaging, the collection of seeds and the making of sweets…
“They would force me to do more and more…”
At the bar of the Lons-le-Saunier court where he appeared this Thursday, October 31, the defendant admitted the facts. The why? “I had no choice,” he explains. I feared that my sponsors would attack my partner. I was afraid and they forced me to do more and more…”
Suppliers that he does not denounce. He only knows them by nicknames… They regularly came to Ornans to deliver him, collect unsold goods and money. A real organized business.
Thus, he visited several festivals and techno parties, to finance his personal consumption and, at the same time, “to make a little money.” “. And on an evening like that of the Lons festival, he generated revenue of around 3,000 euros.
Huge consumption
He was 13 years old when he started using drugs. Today, he admits to smoking around ten joints per day, between 10 and 20 grams. An “enormous” consumption for the Public Prosecutor's Office which, despite everything, appreciates the sincerity of the defendant's explanations and his recognition of all the facts. Me Chancenot, his lawyer, points out that he has not been prosecuted for his consumption for a decade, but only for the acts committed on that October evening in Lons-le-Saunier. She insists that the court help her client “to get out of this vicious circle in which he has locked himself”.
The court sentences the defendant to 18 months in prison, 12 of which are suspended on probation. The six months in prison will be accompanied by the wearing of an electronic bracelet at home.
In accordance with our editorial charter, the identity of defendants is revealed for sentences of at least one year in prison with a committal warrant or two years in prison without a committal warrant.
