A recidivist driver, disabled by one arm and who drove a right-hand drive car without a license, was sentenced on Thursday in Toulouse to 30 months in prison for seriously injuring a motorist.
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A sentence lower than the requisitions of the representative of the Prosecutor's Office, Gilles Depasse, who had asked for five years in prison " to prevent him from reproducing his acts of delinquency ". Carole Mauduit, president, ordered continued detention.
Gilles Repasse recalled the criminal record of the defendant, including a dozen mentions including six convictions for driving without a license, including one with a hit and run. He pointed out that it had taken the firefighters three hours to rescue the victim, Vanessa Flamant.
Accident on the journey between her home and her work, this mother will be " in a wheelchair for at least a year ", underlined the lawyer of the civil party, Me Kamel Benamghar, The forties broke down in tears at the pronouncement of sentence.
On January 27 around 8:40 p.m., Jacques Tendart, a 40-year-old auto mechanic with a disabled arm after a motorcycle accident, who never passed his license, had struck his vehicle head-on while trying to pass a van behind the wheel of a BMW of English origin with right-hand drive. Unharmed, he went to see his victim and then fled before help arrived.
After three months on the run, he was finally arrested on May 13 after three unsuccessful attempts, including a refusal to comply. The investigation revealed that the BMW was insured on behalf of a blind man without a license. In addition to the prison sentence for " unintentional injuries for failing to comply with a safety obligation ", the man was banned from passing a driver's license for one year.
The court granted the victim a provision of 8,000 euros in damages and ordered a medical examination pending a new trial on civil interests on October 7. A device in accordance with the requests of the lawyer of the civil party, who stressed that the victim had undergone several surgeries after a period of coma.
" There is enough to condemn him without aggravating circumstances ", pleaded the defense lawyer, Sarah Nabet-Claberie, who had asked for a lighter imprisonment in favor of a follow-up obligation.
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