Miscellaneous – Justice | Avignon: relaxed after his passage on the point of deal while he is under electronic bracelet
On September 7, at the corner of Fleur de Sauge and Pâquerettes streets in Avignon, Chahid, 21, said he was just passing by, in front of the deal point, to return home. “My father had just dropped me off after work. I was going to the cafe“, explained the young defendant before the criminal court where he was tried for, use and transfer of narcotics while he was already placed under an electronic bracelet since last July within the framework of a semi-freedom granted after a sentence to a year and a half in prison…
The police were formal: they recognized this young man in a white T-shirt, who was wearing a cap and was going back and forth towards a rock on which a lookout had taken place, bringing him cannabis in a bag. . Several comings and goings were observed and, just after Chahid’s arrest, the police seized resin hidden in an adjoining boiler room. In police custody, the young Avignonnais recognized the use, could not deny that he is on the point of deal but a refuted engages in the slightest sale. “I am not a drug dealer“said the man who was sentenced last spring for criminal association after being arrested, with comrades, in a car where there was a weapon.”I was coming back from work explains, the one who is employed in a production kitchen. I was there, yeah, I smoke two joints a day, but I’m not a dope“.
Just after the requisitions of the public prosecutor who is surprised that the defendant”does not understand what behavior the court expects of him when the justice sentenced him to 18 months in prison“, and who claimed 2 years including one year accompanied by a suspended probation and his continued detention, Me Amroun, for the defense, castigated the police investigation.”You are asking for two years on the faith of the police! The word of the police, for me, is of no importance! The file is strippedpointed out the lawyer asking for the release of the defendant, for lack of sufficient evidence. If the word of the police is enough, then there is no longer any need for a magistrate in the prosecution, in the investigation…“.
Going in the direction of the defence, the court acquitted Chahid of the facts of transfer of narcotics but condemned him for the use to 90 day-fines at 10 euros.