The public prosecutor of Nantes, Pierre Sennès, surrounded by General Frédéric Laurent, second in command of the Pays de la Loire gendarmerie region (left) and Gilles Foliard, commander of the Loire-Atlantique departmental road safety squadron .
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David Phelippeau / 20 Minutes
“This is the resolution of a court case of extreme gravity through remarkable work and painstaking work.
A 26-year-old Nantes man was arrested Tuesday morning and was indicted on Thursday, explained Pierre Sennès, the Nantes public prosecutor, for manslaughter, unintentional injuries and hit and run.
The man, who admitted the facts and was remanded in custody, faces seven years in prison.
This young man is suspected of having overturned with his car, on January 1, in Héric, a scooter, on the RN137, around 7:40 am The driver, aged 22, had been killed.
His 46-year-old passenger is still in "serious condition".
The motorist had fled.
"Debris of glass and pieces of very light bumpers," according to Gilles Foliard, commander of the Loire-Atlantique departmental road safety squadron, had been found on the spot.
He admitted to having smoked cannabis on the day of the accident
After a big investigation of more than ten months carried out by the various gendarmerie services - "the examination of more than 350 car files and more than 250 telephone lines which had limited in the sector at the time of the facts" -, this Nantais, known to justice (cases of violence and theft and a traffic violation in 2017), therefore admitted the facts.
He confessed to having "smoked a dozen joints of cannabis and that he was not insured" on the day of the accident, according to the prosecutor.
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