This is called being fooled like a bruise.
While he wanted to impress his friends by driving a flashing light at high speed in Nice, a man was arrested by the municipal police on Tuesday evening, reports the daily
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During a search of his home, the agents found all the panoply of the false police officer: bulletproof vest, fake business cards, uniforms bought on the Internet, badges, category C weapons. But also synthetic drugs.
According to the local newspaper, he turned out to be a person who likes to dress up rather than a thug.
The man was nonetheless sentenced to an eight-month suspended prison sentence with a probationary period of two years for "endangering others, false administrative document, use of narcotics, irregular use of alarms reserved for vehicles of general interest ".
He is also banned from carrying a weapon for five years and his driver's license has been suspended for six months.
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