Europe 1 with AFP 9:58 a.m., January 25, 2024
The driver of the car which accidentally hit a dam run by farmers in Ariège, killing a breeder and her daughter, was indicted and placed in detention, the Foix prosecutor announced on Wednesday.
No charges were brought against the two passengers of the vehicle following their custody.
The driver of the car which accidentally hit a dam run by farmers in Ariège, killing a breeder and her daughter, was indicted and placed in detention, the Foix prosecutor announced on Wednesday.
“At the end of his first appearance interrogation (...), he was indicted on charges of aggravated involuntary homicide, aggravated injury and driving without insurance,” declared the Foix prosecutor in a press release. .
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No charges against the two passengers
No charges were brought against the two passengers of the vehicle following their custody.
As they were subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), they were placed in an administrative detention center, according to the same source.
The three occupants of the car, all three of Armenian nationality, were arrested and placed in police custody immediately after the accident which occurred in Pamiers on Tuesday at dawn.
In addition to the farmer and her 12-year-old daughter, the father was seriously injured in the accident and hospitalized in serious condition.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Foix prosecutor indicated that "the driver (had) admitted to having circumvented the special safety device which blocked access to national road 20" and "not having realized in time the presence of the black tarpaulin which covered the straw wall", which marked the start of the blockade where a few dozen demonstrators were gathered.
A white march will take place on Saturday to pay tribute to Alexandra Sonac and her daughter Camille, near the scene of the accident.