Miscellaneous – Justice | Avignon: the smell of narcotics? “I didn’t feel anything, I had a cold”
It’s very simple, they denied everything… or almost. On location in the Reine-Jeanne district, a ferry crew decided to check a vehicle, whose passenger was not wearing a seat belt, this Monday, at 12:45 p.m. They were immediately alerted by a strong smell of cannabis, emitted from a bag, placed under the said passenger’s seat. But when they point out to him, he mimics surprise, just like the driver. In court, the latter will continue in his version, even going so far as to retort: ”I didn’t feel anything, I have a cold“.
Pirouettes that President Mathieu only moderately appreciated, asking them to “stop taking the court for fools“. 76 grams of cannabis resin, which according to the two defendants, would have been placed there maliciously, even though the owner of the car would have his bags stolen for 500 euros, the same day, in his vehicle left open at the door. Queen Joan…
At the same hearing, the passenger responded to him for two other detained narcotics offenses, committed in January and February, even though he is from Nîmes. After having invented a fake pregnant girlfriend, he will eventually admit his guilt in these two cases, but not in the most recent. The owner of the car was finally released from the charge of detention but sentenced for transporting narcotics, to 8 months in prison without a warrant, a sentence that can be adjusted if he gives guarantees. The passenger was declared guilty of the three facts, sentenced to 12 months with a warrant of committal with in addition, the revocation of a reprieve of 5 months.