The investigation is continuing and is now entrusted to an investigating judge after the theft of a truck on the Nice seaside which seriously injured a septuagenarian on Wednesday.
"The prosecution is opening a judicial investigation into the counts of attempted theft, theft and involuntary injury by deliberate breach of an obligation of prudence or security", indicated to
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Jean-Philippe Navarre, deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Nice.
Seven years in prison
Wednesday morning, a man in his twenties was arrested while "driving under the influence of an alcoholic state, after the use of narcotics, without a driving license, further specifies Jean-Philippe Navarre.
And that he tried to avoid his responsibility by fleeing.
“Aggravating circumstances in this case.
The individual faces seven years in prison.
The prosecution seized the investigating judge of requisitions for the purposes of placement in pre-trial detention.
With the truck he had just stolen from the Quai des Etats-Unis, the man in his twenties hit a bench on which another man, aged 76, was sitting.
The latter is "still hospitalized" this Friday noon, according to information from the deputy prosecutor.
Prolonged police custody for the man who hit a septuagenarian in Nice
A man steals a truck and hits a pedestrian on the seaside in Nice
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