Businessman stopped in Igoville over cannabis gets 9-month suspended term
Gendarmes stopped a businessman driving his Porsche in Igoville on 1 November 2026 and found his driving licence had expired and a roadside saliva test was positive for cannabis. The judicial court in Évreux, trying him in immediate-appearance proceedings, gave him nine months in prison suspended with two years' probation.
Gendarmes stopped a businessman driving his Porsche at a roadside check in
Igoville on Sunday 1 November 2026.[1]The officers found that his driving
licence was no longer valid, its extension having expired at the end of
September 2025.[1]A saliva test carried out at the roadside was also positive
for cannabis.[1]
The judicial court in Évreux convicted the businessman and gave him nine months
in prison suspended with probation.[1]He was tried at the judicial court in
Évreux in immediate-appearance proceedings, a fast-track hearing for cases where
the accused is brought before the court in person.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The page is behind a subscriber paywall; only the lead and the first two paragraphs of the body could be read. No quantity of cannabis, blood-test confirmation or details of the traffic stop's circumstances were published in the accessible text.
The full sentence, including the toxicology-treatment obligation, cancellation of the licence and €300 fine, appears only in the first body line, whose exact punctuation could not be reproduced in a checked quotation; the report states the prison term and reporting the rest in its open questions.
The article does not say whether the man was detained or released before the hearing, nor how the licence extension lapsed.
No figure is given for the amount of cannabis involved, so no kg_seized is recorded.
Only one source, the local Paris Normandie account, was found for this event; no court or gendarmerie statement was accessed.
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