Illustration in a gendarmerie.
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E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes
The motorist, suspected of having struck four pedestrians leaving a restaurant on Saturday evening in the city center of Servian (Hérault), was indicted for unintentional injuries, with two aggravating circumstances: driving under the influence of alcohol, and hit and run.
These qualifications make him incur, in addition to the cancellation of his license and the confiscation of his vehicle, a maximum penalty of 7 years in prison and a 100,000 euros fine, indicates the prosecutor, Raphaël Balland.
Two of the four pedestrians were seriously injured and rushed to the Montpellier University Hospital.
This Tuesday, the vital prognosis of these two victims is no longer engaged.
However, one of them is still placed in intensive care.
Remanded in custody
After the accident, the suspect fled.
He had been arrested during the night by the gendarmes and had been taken into police custody.
"He was alcoholic and admitted to having drunk whiskey throughout the afternoon, he had a rate of 0.62 g of alcohol per liter of exhaled air at the time of his placement in police custody," continues the prosecutor.
He claimed to have left the scene for fear of reprisals, after a verbal altercation with the children of a victim present there.
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The 32-year-old man has already been convicted of drunk driving three times, in 2008, 2009 and 2018. He was remanded in custody on Monday.
The investigations are continuing, they should take several more months "in order to try to determine the precise causes of the accident", notes the prosecutor.
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