A 21-year-old man was sentenced last Monday to two years in prison and two years suspended for aggravated manslaughter on a 5-year-old girl, overthrown on July 20, 2020 in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Having spent the last 13 months in detention, the culprit was nevertheless released after the verdict, details
Le Parisien
, the decision leaving the family of the victim in shock.
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The accident, at the corner of avenue Jean Jaurès and rue Léopold-Réchossière, had been terribly violent, leaving no chance for Sofia, the girl who was then walking next to her mother and her child. older sister.
The driver of the Renault Clio, which was carrying four of his friends, did not have a license and ignored the red light, passing at very high speed before fleeing.
He ended up going the next day to the police.
The prosecution appealed against the decision
When the decision of the Bobigny Criminal Court was announced, the victim's mother could not hide her surprise.
If his client had established contact with the driver's family, and said that she was considering "
forgiving
" one day, she "
did not expect that [he] would get out of prison right away,
" Ghada explained. Hamzi, lawyer for the family, adding to the
Parisian
that "
no pardon had been sent to the civil parties
".
For its part, the prosecution, which had required six years of imprisonment, announced to appeal.
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“
I knew how to pass the first, the second, the third. I didn't realize
, ”commented the person responsible for Sofia's death. Some witnesses described him as moving around aggressively and failing to run over another person on the day of the tragedy. The car was used by several people in the city. Only one of the passengers had tried to brake the driver in his mad rush, by pulling the handbrake. The passengers were, however, all given a six-month suspended sentence for failing to assist a person in danger.
