Olivier Mouysset, the public prosecutor of Foix, in Ariège, in turn spoke in a press release to clarify the circumstances of the fatal accident.
The occupants of the car “took national road 20, despite the system put in place to prohibit access. While traveling on the double track, their vehicle collided, in the middle of the night, and with no public lighting nearby, a wall of straw bales, erected all the way up to the bridge, and while this straw wall was covered with ‘a large black tarpaulin. However, a large barn was installed behind this straw wall, where demonstrators ate. The vehicle then hit three people, before ending its course against the trailer of a tractor,” he explains.
Before concluding: “In view of the very first elements of the investigation, which has barely begun, the facts in question do not appear to be of an intentional nature”.