A video of a French driver refusing to take a blood alcohol test has gone viral. The driver and his wife belong to the conspiracy movement of "sovereign beings" The movement was born in the United States, before being exported to other Anglo-Saxon countries in the 1980s, notably to Canada and Australia.

In its American version, certain members were described in 2011 as a “domestic threat”. Its more recent entry into France has been “fairly marginal, with a fairly marginal expression, although difficult to quantify”