Vendée delivery driver gets 100 day-fines for driving after cannabis
A 34-year-old delivery driver was sentenced by the La Roche-sur-Yon court to 100 day-fines of 4 euros and lost his licence after gendarmes stopped him at Montaigu on 22 February 2025 and he tested positive for drugs. A repeat offender, he told the court he had smoked a joint at a birthday party three weeks before the check.
🇫🇷 La Roche-sur-Yon court, Montaigu, Vendée · France
On 5 November 2026 a 34-year-old delivery driver was tried at the court in La
Roche-sur-Yon for driving after testing positive for drugs.[1]Gendarmes
stopped the company vehicle he was driving at Montaigu on 22 February 2025.[1]The driver told the court he had smoked a joint at a birthday party three weeks
before he was checked.[1]
He was a repeat offender, having already been convicted of similar offences, and
told the court that was in the past and he had stopped.[1]The public
prosecutor asked for 100 day-fines of 4 euros each, a total of 400 euros.[1]The prosecutor also sought cancellation of his driving licence with a four-month
ban on taking the test again.[1]The court followed the prosecutor’s
submissions in full, with the day-fine sentence and licence withdrawal, and his
lawyer said he had stopped using cannabis and understood the charges.[1]
The prosecutor told the court that road-safety figures in Vendée were
catastrophic and that many accidents stemmed from driving under alcohol or
drugs.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
driving after testing positive for drugs (conduite après usage de stupéfiants)
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Fine, Prison
Force
No force reported
Region
Vendée
Sources
actu.fractu.frFR« Quand on est chauffeur, il faut être plus que sérieux », ce chauffeur-livreur contrôlé positif au cannabis au volant
Open questions the AI reported
The source reports 100 day-fines of 4 euros as the prosecutor's submissions and says they were followed in full, but does not restate the amount of the day-fine as the court's own sentence.
No weight or quantity of cannabis was reported; the case rests on a positive roadside drug test.
The date the positive test result was returned is not given.
The article gives no date for the original earlier conviction behind the repeat-offender status.
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The criminal court in Troyes sentenced 47-year-old Ramzi Nefzaoui to 14 months in firm prison for drug trafficking and issued an arrest warrant. The case began when gendarmes stopped his Renault Laguna at Barberey-Saint-Sulpice in December 2025 and found cannabis resin, herb, cash and a scale.
The Fontainebleau criminal court sentenced a driver to five years in prison, including two years firm, over a fatal 2021 crash at Souppes-sur-Loing in which his 20-year-old passenger died. The court heard he had drunk alcohol and smoked cannabis and was driving at 135 km/h in a 30 km/h zone.
Anti-crime police in Passamaïnty, Mayotte, broke up a drug deal on 4 November 2026 and seized 3.334 kg of cannabis and 8,495 euros in cash from a suspected stash flat; three people were arrested. Two young men were tried in Mamoudzou on 9 November and sentenced to 30 months with 12 suspended and a 15-month suspended term.