He tried, but his version convinced no one. This Friday, November 15, in front of the Mons judges, a man from Landes, five days shy of his 19th birthday, clings to his story to sleep on his feet.
He recognizes that the car pursued on October 5 by the police in the streets of Mont-de-Marsan belongs to him; that inside the cell phone fixed next to the driving position is indeed his, the bag in which there are 150 euros and 6 grams of cannabis is his and that the passenger is someone close to his father. The latter keeps silent about the one who narrowly escaped the police that day.
Without blinking, the young man, with thick hair on the side and a full beard, announces: “It wasn’t me. I wasn't on the moors. » Failing to give an alibi, he indicates that the man behind the wheel “must have been an inmate he met in prison. He sold me his car but papers were missing. So I gave it back to him and I forgot my things inside. »
A namesake in prison
“At 18, you go ten days without your cell phone. It's rare! », the judge is surprised. “With detention, the telephone is not something I am attached to. » Investigators tried to identify this alleged inmate, going so far as to find a namesake at the Pémégnan penitentiary center. In the photo, the Landais does not recognize him.
At the bar, he holds fast to his version of the judicial error. “I don’t have a future in illegality. I do everything to get out of it. » Upon reading his criminal record, the Mons judges revealed that he has been banned from appearing in the Landes since his indictment in a criminal case still ongoing. He doesn't have a license. Nor insurance. Enough motive to flee from the police. Especially “as he has already violated his judicial control by returning to the Landes a few months ago and has been out of prison for barely three months,” says Alexa Dubourg, the prosecutor.
Eighteen months in prison are required. Pleading for release, Me Chauvin regrets “that there was no exploitation of the DNA taken”. The young adult is sentenced to nine months in prison. His mother just had time to give him a bag of clothes before seeing her son leave, escorted by three police officers.
