Court gives Omar Souidi last chance after a major accident: lawyer must give up hairsteel (Antwerp)
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The correctional court in Antwerp has once again imposed an obligation lawyer Omar Souidi to give up a hair steel after the major accident in Schilde in 2023. The court did partly met his complaints and decided that he must be examined by another law doctor.
The court stated on Friday that a general medical examination, including the analysis of a hair steel, is the most reliable and accurate to investigate whether someone is physically and mentally suitable for driving. « A hair steel handing is in no way a destructive or irreversible action. The defendant should not manipulate her, but can still put the hair in the fold. »
Souidi has two months for this, the session will be continued on 13 June.
The lawyer was convicted in December 2024 for an accident with a fleeing crime that he caused in Schilde in March 2023. The court gave him sixty days driving ban and a fine of 2,000 euros and obliged the well -known lawyer to give up a hair steel. The lawyer, also known for various TV programs, had refused during the procedure to give up such a steel for « aesthetic reasons ».
The court was not satisfied with this and said that Souidi had to undergo a general medical examination, « including a hair analysis. « The importance of road safety prevails on the visual disadvantages that the defendant, as he claims, will experience of the haircut. A hair analysis has the advantage that over much longer period the presence of various psychotropic substances, medication or alcohol can be accurately detected. »
« No evil will »
At the end of March it turned out that Omar Souidi has not yet handed over this hair steel. The expert’s report would show that he did not respond to the invitation for the investigation of which a hair analysis would also be part. Souidi and his lawyer Frédéric Thiebaut say that it was absolutely not about evil. First, according to them, there was an agenda problem, then a few questions were asked to the expert that he did not want to comment on. « We wanted to talk about whether a hair steel was really needed, » Thiebaut explained. « Without answering the questions, the expert made his final report. »
Now that the court still obliges him to give up a hair steel, Souidi will do that too. He said that at the time. « It is more than just a tuft. But if I have to, I will put on that humiliation. »
