In Lille the driver of a car was arrested on the night of January 21 to 22 after a chase. On board, the man remembered nothing.
Driving in defiance of almost all the laws, being chased by four police cars, crashing into some of them, being shot at by the police, nearly hitting a police officer who smashes a window with his butt and then drops his gun in the vehicle and remembers…nothing. Do you think it’s a bit big? But it’s the defense adopted by a driver who has been through it allon the night of Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 January.
The man was spotted in the streets of Lille, before being chased to National Road 41. A journey of 32 kilometers and 40 minutes during which all the situations set out above have been experienced. The pursuit stopped in a dead end in Haisnes (Pas-de-Calais), near La Bassée.
In his “discharge”, the man had consumed cocaine, beers and sleeping pills before getting behind the wheel. “An explosive cocktail that made him lose his sense of reality”according to Maître Dorothée Assaga, defense lawyer quoted by The voice of the North. Which can give clues to memory loss…
A year in prison following this part of GTA V… in real life
Judged in immediate appearance, the man did not benefit from any mitigating circumstances. The court thus followed the requisitions of the prosecutor. The driver, 25-year-old handler and already convicted by criminal order for having consumed cocaine, got a year in jail.
That’s not all, since upon his release from prison, he will have prohibition from driving any motor vehicle for one year. He should also not no longer appear in Hauts-de-France for three years. The lawyers for the civil party, Maître Evelyne Ingwer and Maître Eric Catteline-Denu, undertook to recall the seriousness of the facts:
“Thirty-two kilometers in the middle of town and at an hour when there is still traffic. It is “an eloquent record of what the forces of order experience on a daily basis. “They can’t know who they’re dealing with in the car. »
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