Illustration during a trial (illustration).
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S. Salom-Gomis / Sipa
On the night of the tragedy, he was driving the car without a license and had left the scene of the accident with the two other survivors to return home by train.
This Thursday, a young man was sentenced to four years in prison, including two years closed, by the criminal court of Lyon, seven years after the death of three of his friends, who drowned in a car found in the Saône.
Two other boys, who had left the Loire and Haute-Loire to come to party in Lyon this evening in July 2014, and who survived the accident, were sentenced to ten months in prison, reports
Progress.
the night of July 26, after a drunken night, the six boys had boarded the car of one of them.
But the only one of the gang who had the license and to which the vehicle belonged, had not taken the wheel.
Failure to rescue
Minor at the time of the facts, the defendant who appeared this week for “manslaughter” took to the road until the tragedy occurred towards Confluence and the Clio plunged into the Saône.
After the accident, the driver managed to get out of the car, along with two of the rear passengers.
The other three young people, aged 17 and 18, remained trapped in the vehicle and were found drowned by firefighters.
After giving the alert, the three survivors, very intoxicated according to witnesses at the time, ended up taking a train home.
Their parents had taken them to the Lyon police station the day after the tragedy.
An attitude which earned them to be condemned all three for "failure to help".
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