The decision received by Vlad Pascu after a year of preventive arrest
Vlad Pascu, the drug driver who in August 2023 fatally injured two young people and injured three others in May 2, remains in preventive arrest, after the Constanta Court of Appeal rejected his request to replace the respective measure at home or judicial control.
The period of preventive arrest was extended by 60 days, the sentence of the magistrates being final.
‘On the basis (…), it finds the legality and soundness of the preventive arrest measure regarding the defendant Pascu Matei Vlad, which he maintains for a period of up to 60 days, to be verified at the latest until 25.05.2025, inclusive. On the basis (…), rejects, as unfounded, the request to replace the measure of the preventive arrest with that of the arrest at home/judicial control. It is communicated according to the legal provisions. Final ‘, is shown in the short solution given by the judges of the Court of Appeal.
The Mangalia Court ordered at the beginning of this year, the conviction of Vlad Pascu, without agreement, to 10 years in prison, a punishment from which the period will decrease over one year in which he was detained and then arrested preventively.
The decision of the court is not final, it is challenged by Vlad Pascu, but also by the prosecutors and relatives of the victims, the case to be tried at the Constanta Court of Appeal.
In October 2023, the prosecutors of the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Mangalia District Court sent a preventive arrest, the defendant Vlad Pascu, in Bucharest, for committing the crimes of guilty, bodily injury, driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or other substances and leaving the place.
‘In the charge of the defendant, it was held that, on the morning of August 19, 2023, he drove a vehicle on public roads, under the influence of psychoactive substances, and, at the entrance to May 2, a group of people traveled on the road. As a result of the impact, the death of the named OAS (21 years) and DRM (20 years), as well as the bodily injury of the BDD (18 years), the CVA (20 years) and ICI (20 years) resulted. It is also noted that, after the accident occurred, the defendant left the accident site ‘, prosecutors said at that time.
