2023-07-02 10:03:00
It is this second solution that Judge André Jordant chose towards a 21-year-old young man from Valansart (Chiny). Despite the seriousness of the facts (cocaine and cannabis trafficking), but also on the relaxed side, bordering on disrespectful of the defendant during the hearing, the judge sentenced him to 100 hours of work, a fine of €8,000, nearly €500 in legal costs. His car and a small sum he had on him at the time of his arrest were confiscated. He will benefit from a reprieve of three years only on the fine sentence.
The young Gaumais had been arrested at the wheel of his car a little over a year ago. Without a driver’s license and under the influence of drugs. The police had also found narcotics in the car and in his room during a search of his parents’ home. The analysis of his mobile phone had made it possible to confuse him thanks to the numbers of people notoriously known in the narcotics world. He had served a month in prison in preventive detention.
He took refuge in drugs when he was little
Florence Ricci, the deputy public prosecutor, also recalled that he had been convicted of driving while under the influence and that he had not worked the hours to which he had been sentenced. Another conviction in family court had also been noted.
In his defence, the defendant, helped by his lawyer Me Dimitri De Coster, had highlighted his difficult youth and his addiction to prohibited substances. “I had a lot of psychological problems when I was a child, he explained quietly to the judge. I took refuge first in cannabis, then in cocaine. My parents understand that I need drugs to calm me down, it’s to ‘consume free’ that I started doing business. I would like to stop or at least reduce the quantities, but I can’t do it.”
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