No drugs used, however, positive speekseltest and one and a half month loss of driving licence: They treated me like a criminal

Aalst Hayco Reygaert (24) was after a trip to The Aalsters Kersthuisje with the car on the side taken by the police and the speekseltest be cocaine. The man heard the thunder in Cologne. “I do not use drugs and had the good Bob that afternoon not a drop of alcohol” said Hayco. A negative urine test advocates now in his favor, but the blood test indicates, he should not drive.

On december 15, was Hayco on a visit to Gunther Van Den Bremt, the man of The Aalsters Kersthuisje. “That Saturday, I, together with my family from 14 to 22 hours with Gunther. in the Evening we are back home in Iddergem left. In the Ninovesteenweg to the Okay in Welle, there was control of the police. We had the car park of the Okay to drive” said Hayco.

Hayco, the driver of the car, had a speekseltest undergo. “The car in front of me had to go to the alcohol screening involve. The agents of Denderleeuw and Haaltert turned their flashlights at me and referred me directly to the speekseltest to test for drugs. Apparently I look like a drug user?”, ask Hayco.

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Hayco says that afternoon, no alcohol and certainly no drugs touched. “I was Bob,” said Hayco. “The officers took the speekseltest to the combi and arrived eight minutes later, back: ‘Sir, you must be honest with us, " she said sharply. But I repeated that I don't use. The drug test proved positive to cocaine.”

Reygaert fell from the sky. “I use nothing, only antibiotics because I suffered with inflamed gums,” said Hayco. “I had to go with the agents to the hospital for a blood test. Embarrassing experience, since arriving with two agents next to you. Like you are the biggest criminal of the city. The police also remained at the door of the verpleegruimte in the Er,” says he.

Negative urine test

Meanwhile, Hayco since Saturday without a driver's license, because that is repealed until the blood test him vrijpleit. “I'm kraanman of appeal. Luckily I have four weeks of vacation and I don't have a car to drive, or I was summarily dismissed. I'm sure to december 30, my driving licence lost,” said Hayco.

Last Monday, he showed to the doctor, a urine test will decrease. There tested Hayco negative on drugs. “According to the doctor it means that it is certain that I no cocaine in my body, and that the speekseltest error,” said Hayco.

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The kraanman from Iddergem is not the only positive test, and where hindsight shows that the test error is. In 2017 showed that in 10% of the positive speekseltesten the case. In 2016, it was up 11.3%.

Possibly the medication that Hayco took had an impact on the outcome of the speekseltest. “My lawyer has now to the public prosecutor, was asked whether the licence is not faster than it can be released” said Hayco.

“The blood sample, however, will have a definite answer to give,” says the public prosecutor's office of East-Flanders. “Imagine that absolutely nothing is found, then we speak about a false positive test and get a gentleman and his driver's license back”, sounds. Hayco can, however, in a letter to the public prosecutor of East-Flanders, department of Dendermonde, present his case to argue.