What happened on January 24 in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis)? The result of a computer bug or that of a slightly overzealous police officer? History does not tell us, the police headquarters not having responded to our requests. A resident of the city, who had been fined 43 times in the space of four hours, saw all of his tickets dismissed. This after Le Parisien revealed this ludicrous situation.
In a letter sent on March 22 to his lawyer, Me Servane Crosnier, the officer of the public prosecutor (OMP) at the Bobigny police court notified that he had granted his request for exemption, without however giving him an explanation. The criminal lawyer based in Bagnolet welcomed a decision full of “logic” while “this case was devoid of any from the start”. “In the end, things are back to normal,” she said. “But what a hassle…”
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