The driver, whose license was canceled, with a ban on returning for a year, was imprisoned. He had already been sentenced in 2022 for driving under the influence of cannabis.
History resonates with current events, in the midst of the Pierre Palmade affair. A 22-year-old motorist who tested positive for cocaine was sentenced on Monday to 15 months in prison by the Puy-en-Velay criminal court.
“The young man (…) had already been sentenced in April 2022 to a suspended sentence for driving under the influence of cannabis”, a product of which a hundred grams were recently found at his home, the prosecution said on Tuesday. .
Positive for cocaine during a road check in Puy-en-Velay on December 22, this resident of Vals-près-le Puy (Haute-Loire), was tried Monday in appearance at a deferred time, after being placed in remand in mid-January. The driver whose license was canceled, with a ban on returning for a year, was imprisoned.
“A social issue”
The representative of the public prosecutor’s office underlined during the hearing “an important social issue, which is particularly publicized at the moment”.
Pierre Palmade actually also tested positive for cocaine after his accident on a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne on February 10. The actor had also used synthetic drugs before the collision, which caused three serious injuries within the same family: a man, his 6-year-old son and his pregnant sister-in-law, who lost her baby.
In the wake of the accident caused by the comedian under the influence of cocaine, Gérald Darmanin spoke out on Sunday for a judicial tightening in the treatment of those who drive under the influence of drugs, narcotics or alcohol.
The Minister of the Interior stressed that “about 600 people die each year in drug-related road accidents and that a total of 800,000 ‘drug’ roadside checks took place in 2022, “double from previous years”. He promised that there would be “a million this year”.
