On March 22, Hugo Soisson, 23, and his brother left the box where they drank a bottle of vodka and a champagne. For caution, they wait an hour in the parking lot before hitting the road. But Hugo Soisson loses control of the car he borrowed and struck a wall after hitting a floor lamp. The gendarmes intervene around 8 am. Hugo Soisson tells them that he is aware of being alcoholic what the ethylometer confirms. He had 1.18 grams of alcohol in his blood.
First police custody for the defendant who will learn from the mouth of the prosecutor that his license has been suspended since July 26, 2024 after the loss of all points. This news bothers her. He then declared: “I need to drive to work and adjust my rent debts». He has just left the accommodation of which he is a tenant because he is about to be expelled for a rent debt of around € 1,200. He works as an agricultural worker in the Somme and returned to live with his mother, in Breteuil (Oise). He will recognize at the end of the hearing that he continues to drive despite the suspension of his license, to go to work, at the wheel of a car belonging to the brother of his new girlfriend.
The chase ends in the wall of a house
It is this Golf 4 that the gendarmes notice on the D1001 when it passes in front of them at 0.20 am on April 11. Its driver drives at high speed and makes deviations. The soldiers want to carry out his control but the man accelerates. He takes roundabouts in the wrong way, double to the right. The pursuit will last between half an hour and an hour, in defiance of the rules of the highway code. The fugitive will cross thirteen municipalities and will travel nearly sixty-five kilometers, rolling up to 180 km/h in several places. HAS Esquennoyhe loses control and finds himself in a dead end. The gendarmes believe that it is the end of the trip but, after having made a reverse, it always sets off at high speed. The little brother addresses the soldiers who pursue them. But the prosecution will end in the wall of a house that undergoes significant damage. Fortunately, everyone is unscathed. Its owners are in shock.
Hugo Soisson was placed in pre -trial detention by the liberty judge. This Monday, April 13, he was in the Box of the accused of the Beauvais court after spending two nights in prison, which left him time to think. He explains that he fled when he saw the gendarmes behind him because he knows that his license is suspended. He is aware that his conduct has endangered his little brother and the road users that he could meet or exceed. He repeats what he has already said to the gendarmes about his conduct: “It’s stupid!Relatives which he tempers immediately by putting his need to lead to the carpet to go to work on the carpet.
He recognizes that he uses the car as if he had a license
The president does not fail to point out that to go from Breteuil to her workplace in the Somme, we do not go through Vendeuil-Caply, nor by Beauvais. He recognizes that he uses the car as if he still had his license. “”For you it’s when I want, I do“Concludes the president. But the two nights spent in detention made him understand that he is no longer allowed to drive. His employer seems to be able to accommodate him. However, the facts of March did not lead him to it: “it’s worse in worsedeclares the president, If your employer can accommodate you why not have gone to live at his house from the facts of March?»»
His criminal record has only one conviction: a conduct without insurance in November 2023. He is currently employed on a fixed -term contract which will end in June. He hopes to resume family exploitation as soon as possible.
The owners of the house he stamped require € 1,500 for their moral damage. For material damage, damage is difficult to encrypt. They await the passage of an expert for April 30.
As it seems to the prosecutor that the only solution to understand is prison, it requires a sentence of eighteen months in prison, including ten months suspended sentence and maintaining detention for the eight months of the firm part and the cancellation of its driving license.
He escapes prison
“”Although it will not change much to the penalty that will be pronounced“, The Defense lawyer argues that after all, nothing proves that he was aware of his license suspension during the Mars’ fact committee. He insists on the precarious and financial situation of his client and does not think that imprisonment is a good solution. “”Maintaining detention does not make sensehe said. A probationary stay and an adjustable sentence would be more profitable.»»
Hugo Soisson was found guilty of all the offenses that are reproached for him. He escapes the eight months in prison requested by the prosecutor. The court sentenced him to fourteen months in prison, including six months under a single suspended and leaves the judge to apply the sentences to develop the eight months in prison. His license is canceled and he will have to wait six months before soliciting a new one. He will have to pay two fines to € 135 for insurance defects. The case is referred to civil interests on September 17.
