{"id":18539,"date":"2013-06-21T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=18539"},"modified":"2013-06-21T19:17:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:17:57","slug":"france-bans-depardieu-from-driving-after-he-fell-off-his-scooter-drunk-not-that-he-cares-now-he-lives-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=18539","title":{"rendered":"France bans Depardieu from driving after he fell off his scooter drunk (not that he cares now he lives in Russia)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/depardieu2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18537\" alt=\"depardieu2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/depardieu2.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/depardieu2.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/depardieu2-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Gerard Depardieu has been banned from driving for six months and fined 4,000 Euros for drink driving.<\/p>\n<p>The ban follows an incident in November last year when the actor, 64, fell off his scooter and was taken to a police station drunk.<\/p>\n<p>Depardieu&#8217;s lawyer, Eric de Caumont, said he planned to appeal Friday&#8217;s ruling. He said his client, who was not at the hearing, was in Moscow filming.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman has publicly feuded with France&#8217;s Socialist government over high taxes and has accepted a Russian passport offered by Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse reported that when police arrived at the scene and tested Depardieu, he showed a blood alcohol level of 1.8 grams per litre, well above the French limit for driving of 0.5.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998 the actor was involved in a motorcycle crash when\u00a0his blood-alcohol level was five times over the legal limit. He escaped with leg and face injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Depardieu has been banned from driving for six months and fined 4,000 Euros for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[1468],"class_list":["post-18539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-gerard-depardieu","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}