New development in the context of the traffic accident which occurred on Thursday evening and involving Jean-Hubert Nicolay, the head of the Mons-Quévy police zone. This Wednesday evening, we learn that the police college seized the Minister of the Interior. This decision is in addition to that taken earlier in the week and consisting in requesting the general inspection of the federal police in order to carry out a preliminary investigation.
“The case being of a rare and exceptional nature, the legal procedure applying to it being very specific and the case law of the Council of State being quite complete in the matter, the Police College continued its work this Wednesday and decided to take further action”we confirm on the side of the mayors of Mons and Quévy, Nicolas Martin (PS) and Florence Lecompte (PS).
It was the nature of the facts that prompted the police college to go further. “Given the status of Head of Corps of a local police zone, the potential seriousness of the facts and the damage to the image of the police, the College asked the Minister of the Interior to take of the file as superior disciplinary authority. By acting in this way, the police college continues in its desire to guarantee the independence and impartiality of the investigation and of the entire procedure, which will therefore be carried out by federal services outside the Mons Zone. -Quevy.”
However, it is not yet a question of considering a suspension of the corps commander, the legal conditions relating to such a sanction not being met at this stage. Various gray areas surrounding the accident will still need to be clarified. As a reminder, it was during the night of Thursday to last Friday, while he was driving his company car, that Jean-Hubert Nicolay had a road accident on the R5, near the ramp to exit “Asquillies”.
The only one involved, he lost control of his vehicle and left in a series of barrels, a few hundred meters from his home. He was only slightly injured, but was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital for examinations and some stitches. To write the statement, police officers from the Boraine police zone were called, the officers from the Mons-Quévy police zone not being able to take care of it. The result of the alcohol test was officially negative.
On the contrary, a priori, of the blood test carried out by the medical team of the hospital, the latter showing a rate of 3.06 g per liter of blood, six times more than the limit authorized at the wheel.