The driver on the run after his sentence to eight years in prison for having fatally mowed down Jérôme Bonduelle, one of the managers of the agri-food group of the same name, was arrested and imprisoned in the North, we learned on Friday from parquet. He has been imprisoned in the Annœullin penitentiary center since February 7, said Lille prosecutor Carole Etienne, confirming information from the Voice of the North.
He had been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment with an arrest warrant and a ban on obtaining a driver’s license for five years, and is appealing the sentence against him, she said. recalled. But, appearing free at the end of his pre-trial detention, he had disappeared before the statement of the judgment, in November 2022, according to the Voice of the North.
A man already convicted six times
He had already been convicted six times, including once for a traffic offence, said the prosecution during his arrest, shortly after the accident after which he had fled.
Youngest son of the group’s emblematic ex-president, Bruno Bonduelle, himself deceased in September, Jérôme Bonduelle had been hit in August 2020, at night, by a car traveling at high speed, while he was riding his bicycle in the near Lille-Europe station. Aged 50, he then held the position of director of Bonduelle Prospective et Développement.