From “manslaughter” to “road homicide”. This Monday afternoon, Elisabeth Borne, during an interministerial road safety committee, must announce the creation of a qualification of “road homicide”. It is a “symbolic” name change because there is no creation of a new offense or increase in the penalties incurred, Matignon said this Sunday. The “road homicide” returned to the news during the accident of Pierre Palmade. In 2021, it was the death of Yannick Alléno’s son, Antoine, 24, who reignited the debate.
A death that upset Marc Lévy. “When I hear the distress of Yannick Alléno, it revolts me! It revolts me that in France the crime of the road is so badly judged, confided to us the writer, at the end of May on the sidelines of an interview on his role as ambassador of the Red Cross. How is a guy under the influence of alcohol or drugs, who is going to mow down an 18-year-old kid and who is a repeat offender, not sentenced to ten or twenty years in prison for murder? He’s a killer! What does the court do? What are the politicians doing? »
The message conveyed by the families of victims “shocked by this qualification of manslaughter”, according to the Prime Minister’s entourage, has been heard. Marc Lévy, still “revolted” by this road violence, hopes: “the day when the assassins will be put in sheet metal for ten years, believe me things will change, and ten years is not expensive for having killed a young 18 years old. »