19-year-old gets suspended year over cannabis-fuelled police chase
The Mulhouse criminal court on 2 November 2026 gave a 19-year-old a one-year suspended prison term with two years of probation for fleeing gendarmes at 100 km/h through town in early March while driving without a licence. Gendarmes found a bag linking him to the abandoned car, and he was in possession of cannabis.
A 19-year-old was tried at the Mulhouse criminal court on 2 November 2026 over a
refusal to stop for gendarmes committed in March.[1]Around 23 h one night
that month, a gendarmerie crew was nearly hit by a car, and the driver refused
to stop and fled at 100 km/h through the town.[1]
The driver ran off on foot after ending up in a dead end, and gendarmes found a
bag at the scene that linked the car to him.[1]He had been driving without a
licence and was in possession of cannabis.[1]
He denied driving that night, telling police in custody and the court that he
had left the keys on a wheel and someone else had borrowed the car.[1]The
prosecutor called that account untenable.[1]
The court gave him one year in prison, suspended with two years of probation,
for the refusal to stop.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Arrested
1
Charged
1
Prison
1 year, suspended with 2 years' probation
Agency type
Gendarmerie, Police, Prosecutor, Court
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis
Activity
Possession
Setting
Home, Prison
Case stage
Sentenced
Sentence
Probation
Sources
Ouest-Franceouest-france.frFRSans permis, il refuse d’obtempérer et roule à 100 km/h en ville : un homme de 19 ans condamné dans le Haut-Rhin
Open questions the AI reported
Only Ouest-France's publication date of 5 November 2026 and the hearing date of 2 November 2026 are given; the chase is dated only to early March 2026, so 1 March stands in for the event date and may be wrong.
Neither account gives the amount of cannabis he carried or says whether a cannabis offence formed part of the conviction rather than a possession noted in the case.
Only the refusal-to-stop sentence is stated; separate rulings on the other offences and any fine or licence ban were not reported.
Ouest-France cites L'Alsace for the sentence details, and that article's full text was behind a paywall, so further details of the hearing could not be checked.
A 28-year-old driver tested positive for cannabis after rear-ending a car and injuring its driver at Percy-en-Normandie on 2 January 2026. The Coutances court sentenced him on 10 November 2026 to six months suspended imprisonment and cancelled his driving licence.
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.