For the parents of the young victim, it is also a question of coming together to “change the laws on road rage“, while the driver in question was released on bail, pending his judgment.
While in the four corners of France anger rumbles after the sordid murder of little Lola, 12, in Paris last Friday, another family wants to be heard in Antibes, after the tragic death of Noé, 16, killed by a driver.
The facts date back to last June. On the night of the 24th to the 25th, the teenager, driving his small car without a license, had been violently hit on the road to Grasse, in Antibes, by a motorist who was driving much too fast. He was declared dead a short time later at the hospital.
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The individual in question, a 43-year-old man, was then checked in a state of intoxication and with traces of cocaine and ecstasy in the blood. Indicted for manslaughter and placed in pre-trial detention on June 27, the latter was released under judicial supervision on September 5, just over two months after the events. An affront to Noah’s parents. Worse, a decision experienced as a double penalty. “We lost our son, and he can live normally and even drive a car without a license“, indignantly, the mother of the teenager at the Figaro.
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“We are outraged, justice released the one who killed our son without any evidence, without having heard us when we asked for it in July. He was released against the requisitions of the prosecution and while he was a repeat offender“, still confided the mother of Noah to the Figaro. We do not understand justice! We were told that he ticked all the boxes: a job, a roof and he gave 5000 euros in bail. Does that mean we have the right to kill for 5000 euros?»
They are now campaigning for “the law changes”. They believe that this is a voluntary homicide insofar as the individual in question “had been drinking, had taken drugs. And he chose to take the wheel. It is a voluntary act.»
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On Sunday, they organize a white march in memory of their son. A march also forchange the laws on road ragethey insist. It’s a first step, there’s still a long way to go, we know that.” The meeting is set for 10 a.m., in front of the Center for Resources, Expertise and Sports Performance (Crips), in Antibes. A place that was not chosen by chance, since the young Riviera had just joined the French sports shooting team.