Seine-et-Marne: without a license, without insurance, he was arrested with a joint in his mouth

Apparently, he started a course of treatment to end his addiction to cannabis. It was time. Because since 2013, this 40-year-old mason has accumulated convictions, notably for driving without a license and under the influence of drugs. “It’s still been going on for 11 years,” the president of the Fontainebleau criminal court pointed out to him, before whom he appeared for two new acts of the same nature committed on April 13 in Cannes-Ecluse and October 20, 2023 in Avon.

That day, the forty-year-old had borrowed his boss’s Fiat without telling him and was stopped by the police because a traffic light was not working. They noticed that the man behind the wheel was driving without a license and under 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 license or even insurance and unsurprisingly, he tests positive for drugs.

The prosecutor criticizes “his total disregard for other road users”

Placed in pre-trial detention for a time, the mason ended up being placed on semi-release in the center of Melun to serve a three-month prison sentence that he already had hanging over his head. “The fines, the suspended sentences, the awareness training courses and now the prison and you continue to take risks,” notes the president, facing the forty-year-old who came alone to defend himself. “With prison, I realized that 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 underlines its “dangerousness due to its roots in narcotics”. In his indictment, the magistrate also castigates “his total contempt for other road users” and demands for the defendant a sentence of 18 months’ imprisonment, including eight months suspended for three years, with an obligation of care, work and retake your driving license. “The firm part can be accomplished in the form of semi-liberty,” he specifies, asking in passing for the confiscation of his Nissan.