Illustrative photo of a police control. - Elisa Frisullo / 20 Minutes

A Saint-Etienne police crew arrested a driver with a number of offenses, around 5:45 am on Saturday. Initially prosecuted because he was not wearing his seat belt, this 25-year-old man then accelerated sharply to avoid the control, as Le Progrès indicates. To the point of broiling to burn a red light and a stop before being intercepted.

The suspect would then have left the vehicle with a bottle of whiskey in his hand. The result of the blood alcohol test is final, with 1.5 g of alcohol per liter of blood. In addition to two friends of his, also very alcoholic, the young Stéphanois was accompanied by three women, aged between 36 and 53, and planning to finish the night with them according to the police.

Hidden in the van, they were discovered at the time of the police, who heard noise in the vehicle. The driver concluded his crazy evening in a sobering-up cell and was then placed in police custody. He will soon be tried for all of these offenses.

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