A man was sentenced by the Béziers criminal court (Hérault) to two years in prison, including one year with a suspended probationary period, for refusing to comply with a summons to stop from the municipal police. The cancellation of his driving license and the ban on retaking it within six months were also pronounced against him.
On September 30, municipal police officers tried to control him in Béziers when he was driving too fast and in the wrong direction. The driver refused to stop, and fled by running red lights, going the wrong way through roundabouts and driving in the opposite lane on bends, “thus endangering motorists and pedestrians who were obliged to avoid it so as not to be hit,” indicates the Béziers public prosecutor’s office. He had finally ended his race at a dead end.
Arrested and placed in police custody at the Béziers police station, the motorist refused to submit to an alcohol test. But he admitted the facts, explaining that he feared losing his driving license, knowing he was under the influence of alcohol. He had already been convicted six times, mainly for violence and theft.