A real public danger, a 22-year-old man was sentenced on Thursday by the Paris Criminal Court to a ten-month prison sentence with a warrant of committal.
This driver appeared before the twenty-third chamber for having, last Tuesday, endangered the lives of others by driving at breakneck speed on the Paris ring road while he was drunk and positive for opiates.
"These are serious facts," said the public prosecutor.
This young repeat offender of driving without a license does not understand the warnings.
He must be arrested with a prison sentence”.
It was during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday on the outer ring road in the 18th arrondissement of the capital that the police spotted this Peugeot 207 which is traveling at 155 km / h while the speed is limited to 70. police arrest the driver alone behind the wheel.
Kamel has never passed the driver's license.
And when he blows into the breathalyzer the result is positive.
The car he is driving was signaled a little earlier in the night on the Champs-Élysées where around half past midnight, he hit a Volkswagen before fleeing.
"I hit this car, but there was nothing, I don't know why the other called the police," he says.
The young man is placed in police custody and during the hearings, he confesses completely.
In the box of the courtroom, this pot-bellied boy, originally from Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) is quiet to say the least.
Unemployed, he left school unable to read or write.
“What do you do with your days?
asks the president.
“Nothing,” says the defendant.
His criminal record bears the trace of three convictions, in Bobigny, Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) and Paris for driving without a license.
No chance to pass the code
During his last appearance in 2021, the justice had ordered him to pass his driving license.
"Why haven't you taken steps to do so?"
», Still tries the magistrate.
“I was going to do it”, replies Kamel who doesn't know why he took the wheel after drinking two glasses of whisky, nor why he was driving so fast….
His lawyer explains that if his client did not push the door of the driving school, it is because he cannot read or write and thinks that he has no chance of passing the exam of the driving school. Traffic Laws.
She stresses that solutions exist and would have liked justice to postpone the sentence and give her a last chance.