The driver suspected of having killed a 5-year-old girl, Monday evening in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), was imprisoned, we learned on Saturday from a source close to the investigation. Aged twenty years, he had been taken into police custody for "manslaughter, lack of a driving license, hit and run, and failure to comply with an obligation of caution" after presenting himself to him. - even Tuesday noon at the Aubervilliers police station.
Monday evening around 7 p.m., little Sofia had been violently struck by a vehicle while she was crossing at the pedestrian crossing with her mother and her big sister on the former RN2 at the Fort d'Aubervilliers. Transferred to hospital, the girl died in the evening.
The Clio had been found in Pantin
The driver, who was driving at high speed, had fled. The vehicle, a blue Clio, had been identified and found in the neighboring town of Pantin (Seine-Saint-Denis), a few hundred meters from the accident. The police went to the suspect's home on Tuesday morning without finding him there.
In front of the police, the young man admitted having hit the child and said to have "done anything" while driving his vehicle. "He explains that he was going home that evening, and that he was driving anyhow, and too fast," a source close to the investigation told the Parisian this week . The man had also admitted to having taken a bus lane, passed a bus on the right, then borrowed a cycle lane and grazed a cyclist before hitting the girl.