Fresh out of custody after having detonated, using a large firecracker, a window in the office of his sister's ex-companion, Jean Alesi disputes any "family conflict" with the latter, according to his attorney.
The former pilot also made it clear that he "was not her brother-in-law" but "a former boyfriend of her sister" from whom she had separated "without conflict" for two years.
"It is absolutely not a family conflict", insisted Me Thibault de Montbrial, specifying that Jean Alesi and this former boyfriend of his sister were "in cordial and non-confrontational terms".
The latter also confirmed that he had "no worries" with the former driver, but nevertheless lodged a complaint for the deterioration of his window.
A big Italian fireworks display
The facts occurred Sunday evening in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (Gard), where the 57-year-old ex-pilot resides.
The police had been called around 10 p.m. by the neighborhood, worried by the sound of an explosion.
Thanks to the license plate number noted by a neighbor, the police were able to determine that the vehicle seen on the spot before leaving with all lights out belonged to José Alesi, the brother of the ex-pilot, who was arrested.
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The next day, Jean Alesi went to the Avignon police station (Vaucluse), where he cleared his brother from customs, explaining that it was he who was in the car, with his son and a friend of his. ci, and that he himself had "stuck a
large fireworks display bought in Italy
in the frame of a window of his brother-in-law's architectural practice", without imagining that it would explode, had explained the deputy prosecutor of Nîmes, Antoine Wolff.
"Childish impulse"
Jean Alesi "was surprised by the violence of the explosion" and "did not think that it would explode the window", he continued: "It is a stupid, childish and unwelcome impulse, but of which he had the idea all alone and that he is the only one to have executed, ”according to Jean Alesi's lawyer, who had explained to the police that they wanted to make a“ bad joke ”. "His son has absolutely nothing to do with what he did," added Thibault de Montbrial, stressing that neither the latter nor his friend in the car knew what Jean Alesi was going to do when he asked his son, who was driving, to stop.
The former Ferrari driver will be tried in 2023 in Nîmes "for degrading the property of others by a means dangerous for people, committed in the context of a family conflict", according to the Nîmes prosecutor's office, while his son will be prosecuted for complicity in the same case.
