A 26-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison, including 16 months with a probationary suspension with obligations to take care of himself, to work and to compensate the victims, by the Béziers criminal court.
On October 19, he attacked a bus in the Hérault sub-prefecture with a hatchet, smashing the vehicle's windshield.
He felt that the driver had cut him off right of way.
The latter, in a state of acute stress, had benefited from a three-day ITT.
Quickly spotted thanks to his license plate, the individual was arrested an hour later at his home.
“During his custody, the defendant explained his behavior by his nervousness and his drunkenness, claiming to suffer from alcoholism, says the prosecutor of the Republic of Béziers, Raphaël Balland.
In fact, nearly 9 hours after his arrest, he still had a rate of 0.72 mg of alcohol per liter of exhaled air.
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Prosecuted for aggravated violence
The man was being prosecuted for acts of violence aggravated by three circumstances (use of a weapon, state of drunkenness and on a person entrusted with a public service mission), damage to property belonging to a person in charge of 'a public service mission, transport of a category D weapon and driving in a state of obvious drunkenness.
Contrary to the requisitions of the public prosecutor's office, which had requested a committal warrant, he benefited from a placement measure under an electronic bracelet.
Device that allows him to keep his job.
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