3 to 4 joints per day was the average for this bachelor, not so dreamy… Condemned to wear an electronic braclet, he will be able to continue smoking…
The gendarmes of the Autun brigade cornered him on the drugs aspect, after a road check followed by a search of the home, but the perfume theft aspect turns out to be substantial, there is around 11,000 euros worth of merchandise .
This Thursday, November 14, at the immediate appearance hearing, the room is packed, high school students, master's students and the family of the first defendant occupy every place and even more.
In the box, a 44-year-old man, in front of him a lawyer who arrived from Paris, who begins by pleading at length the grounds for nullity. The prosecutor will respond scathingly on each point. An hour later, the court can address the merits.
Faced with so many resources deployed, we thought we were dealing with the trafficker of the year, but that does not seem to be the case.
The facts
On October 28, police officers checked the driver of a scooter. He tested positive for narcotics. In the process, the police conducted a search of his home. The gendarmes found there: two cannabis cultivation rooms, grinders, precision scales, 130 grams of cannabis leaves, 250 grams of cut flowers, 1.78 kg of cannabis resin, and, icing on the cake: weed, 209 bottles of so-called “branded” perfumes.
The drugs come from Spain, sent “by post” specifies the defendant. The perfumes are simply removed from the pallets which pass through the company which employs him as an order picker… He is not the only one to help himself, an investigation is underway.
“3 to 4 joints every evening.” He lives alone and has no children
The man recognizes the facts. We understand even less why he requested the assistance of a Parisian firm.
He says he has been taking drugs, exclusively cannabis, for about 10 years. He has never tried to wean himself from it, he cultivates his plants and also buys resin.
He says he smokes “3 to 4 joints every evening”. He lives alone and has no children. He was already convicted in 2020 for driving while using cannabis. In addition to a fine, he was required to take an awareness course on the dangers of driving under drugs. And ? And nothing. As is often the case. It's not all about lecturing people so that it opens their ears. It's been like this since the dawn of time.
Morals and requisitions
Speaking of lessons, the prosecution is going for a bit of old-fashioned morality (He could still make his family proud of him instead of being in the box… We are still entitled to find that it's an outdated morality: are we on earth to make our families proud, or are we alive for nothing at all, and we remain to live our lives, which the defendants undoubtedly have difficulty doing, given the embarrassments they get into? It's a real debate.)
The prosecutor requests a sentence of 18 months in prison, 12 of which would be accompanied by a reinforced probationary suspension, continued detention for the firm part.
“He is not a trafficker, he is a consumer who…”
The Parisian lawyer takes the floor again to plead. “He is not a trafficker, he is a consumer who has allowed himself to be overcome by his addiction. » (And who at the same time could have become the target of traffickers, as the magistrates mentioned, editor's note) “He admitted everything. Its installation is artisanal. There is 600 euros worth of equipment and the cannabis is not packaged. Its THC content is particularly low. »
On the flights: “He’s not the brains behind this system. He did not benefit from it,” says the lawyer. Furthermore, everything was returned and the company did not become a civil party at the hearing. Given all that, incarcerate him? “The occupancy rate at the Varennes-le-Grand prison center is 183%. He is someone who got off the street on his own, who knew how to reorient himself. His family came to support him. »
8 months firm arranged in DDSE then 2 years under the control of justice
The court rejects the objections of nullity, declares the defendant guilty, sentences him to the sentence of 20 months in prison, 12 months of which are suspended on probation for 2 years, with obligations to care, to work, to pay the fixed fee procedure (more than 300 euros when the facts are linked to narcotics).
The fixed part of 8 months is arranged in home detention under electronic surveillance, but he does not come out immediately: he must wait, in prison, for a sentence enforcement judge to set the framework of the DDSE, within a time limit of 5 days.
