The facts date back to September 3. The driver of a car who fatally hit a pedestrian in Paris was indicted and imprisoned on Tuesday for aggravated manslaughter and refusal to comply. Around 3:30 a.m., Sunday September 3, the driver escaped a police patrol who was trying to check his BMW in Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), northeast of the capital.
The young man placed in pre-trial detention
A few minutes later, he hit a pedestrian on Boulevard Macdonald, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. The man, born in 1994 in Italy, was arrested after the fatal accident, then taken into custody. He was taken to the psychiatric infirmary of the police headquarters and then hospitalized under duress.
Upon his release from hospital, a judge indicted him on Tuesday for involuntary manslaughter by a driver, aggravated by several circumstances: hit-and-run, suspended license and drunkenness, according to the same judicial source. The man was also indicted for refusing to comply directly exposing others to a risk of death, added the same source. A judge of freedoms and detention placed him in pre-trial detention.