Miscellaneous – Justice | Avignon: drunk, he tried to crush the pedestrians
Mounir, 43, was tried in his absence on Tuesday morning before the Avignon Criminal Court for acts committed on September 10 of driving while intoxicated and under narcotics, death threats, endangerment and insults. “This man has made it impossible for himself to be present” revealed, Tuesday, the court by learning that he was placed in police custody at the police station for acts of violence committed in a state of intoxication and sexual assault.
On September 10 at 10 p.m., the police were informed that the driver of an Audi vehicle driving on rue Carreterie had forced the wheel to run over pedestrians! After stopping to go to a grocery store, he got back behind the wheel and again tried to hit pedestrians.
Stuck in a dead end, he got out of the vehicle and told the police, before insulting them, that he was not the one driving the vehicle. This man, who has 16 criminal records, had an alcohol level of 0.56 mg per liter of exhaled air. Civil party for two police officers, Me Gony Massu speaks of facts “incredible” before insults and threats “worse than unacceptable” towards the police. The vice-prosecutor is asking for a 6-month prison sentence and a 6-month driving license suspension.
In the absence of his client, Me Braunschweig-Klein denounces an intervention “muscular” police officers and notes that no witnesses were heard in this procedure. There is nothing to establish that he would have liked to hit passers-by, especially since this is not physically possible in this street due to studs on the sidewalk! After deliberation, the court finds the defendant guilty and condemns him to the suspension of his driving licence.
At the civil level, sums of €150 and €300 are granted to the two police officers in compensation for their moral damage and €350 for their defense costs.