In court, JG, 53, originally from Haiti, struggles to explain how he ended up, on August 24, 2024, tested with a blood alcohol level of 1,61g per litre while driving his vehicle.
This one could have gone unnoticed if he had not found himself mixed up in a road accident occurred late on the Bellevue roadThat evening, the police were alerted to a car colliding with a streetlight. Arriving at the scene, they found a damaged vehicle with its driver inside.
The latter would have been forced to make a violent swerve to the right to avoid a young man arriving on a motorbike and performing a figure of wheelie (urban rodeo) on the opposite lane.
Shocked, he was taken to the hospital, escorted by firefighters and gendarmes and subjected tobreathalyser which reveals a very worrying alcohol level.
Asked by the President of the court to explain this point, JG tried to cleverly dodge it by boasting of his liveliness at the time: "It was just 2-3 beers and I was still able to avoid a tragedy."
More the jury is not fooled and perseveres in his questioning. Cornered, the fifty-year-old then deplores the effects of “Haitian beers very strong and different from other beers”. A shaky defense to say the least, which does not make deputy prosecutor Marie-Lucie Godard smile at all during her requisition: "For a blood alcohol level three times higher than normal, I request the cancellation of the driving license and a six-month suspended prison sentence."
This sentence is explained in particular by the character recidivist of the offense, JG having already been convicted of the same facts previously. The verdict is intended to be exemplary: 4 months suspended imprisonment, €300 fine and ban from driving any vehicle for six months. _THERE
Source: Faxinfo https://faxinfo.fr/en/tribunal-161-g-dalcool-dans-le-sang-la-defense-bancale-dun-conducteur-recidiviste/
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