The driver who mowed down and killed four pedestrians in Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), last Sunday October 29, was indicted for involuntary homicide and placed under judicial supervision, the Pontoise prosecutor’s office told CNEWS.
This Thursday, November 2, the Pontoise public prosecutor’s office confirmed to CNEWS the indictment for involuntary homicide and the placement under judicial supervision of the driver who hit and killed four pedestrians on Sunday, October 29 in Sarcelles, in Val-d’Oise.
Two days after the events, that is to say on October 31, a judicial investigation was opened into the counts of “involuntary homicide aggravated by the manifest violation of a particular obligation of caution or safety imposed by the regulations in this case by traveling at excessive speed” and “unintentional injuries which did not result in total incapacity for work for more than three months aggravated by the manifest violation of a particular obligation of caution or safety imposed by law or regulation”, specified the parquet.
If the first qualification concerns the four people killed, the second concerns the facts “concerning the police officers present on the scene and who were brushed by the vehicle” before it hit the victims.
Initially placed in police custody, the suspect was then presented to an investigating judge on October 31. He was then indicted and placed under judicial supervision, “the investigating judge not having referred the matter to the judge of freedoms and detention for the purposes of placement in pre-trial detention as had been requested by the Prosecutor’s Office”, noted the Pontoise prosecutor’s office to CNEWS.
On the day of the incident, the four people stopped on a poorly lit road to help one of them who had been unwell. They were subsequently hit by this driver, who held a valid license. While in police custody, the accused tested “negative for alcohol and narcotics,” a police source told AFP.
The victims, two women and two men, aged between 31 and 66, were leaving an evening organized by the Haitian community.
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