At his trial, the « sovereign citizen », a conspiracy who refuses the authority of the State, still does not contract – Liberation

Low hat. The president of the Correctional Chamber, at the Dunkirk Court, knew how to keep calm this Tuesday, April 1 in the morning. Faced with her, Pierre Legrand, 53, « Sovereign citizen » claimed is camped, solid on its conspiracy convictions. He immediately returned his questions to him: « Are you a magistrate of the prosecution or the seat? » « From the siege, I am responsible for carrying out the debates », she replied, pedagogue. « And there, it is Madame La Proseture, for the requisition. » This is what he was expecting. As a prosecutor is appointed by the Ministry of Justice, he deduces from his presence that the separation of powers, between executive and legislative, is not respected: « I invoke article 16 of the declaration of the rights of man and the citizen of 1789. I reject this court, and I reject you », he says. The president takes a large breath of fresh air. It’s not even a quarter of an hour that the hearing started. Pierre Legrand is defended for lack of insurance on his carwithout valid technical control, for having refused alcohol and drug controls, and for violence on a gendarme.

He is all dressed in Jean, wearing a large black Stetson, at the cowboy, whom he left for his wife’s good guard,