“Get out of it, you’re a thief, I’m not paying you”: arrested for drunkenness on the public highway, Elvis attacks the municipal police

It's not really a gift that the Montauban judicial court (Tarn-et-Garonne) gave to Elvis, Tuesday November 26, 2024. He will in fact spend the end of year holidays at the house of Beausoleil stop. Because the defendant, who was to be tried in immediate appearance, requested a postponement which is legal in such a case.

The three magistrates then had to consider what security measures they would have to impose on the person who was appearing for five offenses. The fault lies in a series of crimes allegedly committed on Saturday November 23, 2024 which led him to the bench of the defendant's box, into which he arrived limping low, in his jeans and his dark fleece.

He breaks a window of the custody cell

Three days earlier, Elvis was identified in a state of obvious intoxication by municipal police officers in the town of Ingres. But instead of calming down at the time of his arrest, the man virulently attacked the officials. “On one, you are accused of tripping over a leg which caused an injury requiring one day of total work interruption (ITT), says President Emmanuelle Yvert. On the other, several kicks.”

All this before insulting the agents with flowery terms: “Son of a bitch”, “get lost” or even “You’re a thief, I’m not paying you”. To make matters worse, when he was taken to the police station and then placed in police custody, the man allegedly attacked a window in his cell, breaking it. Degradations also continued.

Twelve mentions in the criminal record

Based on the twelve mentions in Elvis' criminal record, including some for aggravated violence, insults or death threats against persons holding public authority (PDAP), the deputy prosecutor Manon Noël can only request placement in pre-trial detention for the sake of non-repetition of the alleged facts and given that it does not offer a guarantee of representation at the new hearing.

Requests on which the defense lawyer, Me Hadrien Saez, is “not able to request an alternative”, by his own admission. And what motivated, therefore, his return to detention while waiting for January 3.