The teenager seriously injured Tuesday morning by a car which hit a farmers’ roadblock in Ariège succumbed to her injuries in the evening, the Foix prosecutor’s office announced in a press release.
His mother, a 35-year-old farmer, also died in the accident, and his father was seriously injured. “The young girl died as a result of her injuries shortly after 7 p.m.,” the Foix prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
On board the incriminated vehicle were three people, of Armenian nationality, who were subject to an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF). A man and two women whose asylum application was submitted in 2022, before being rejected last year, after several appeals.
No “intentional character” according to the prosecutor
The driver, aged 44, and the two passengers, were taken into police custody. Alcohol and drug testing was negative. According to the first elements of the investigation, everything seems to indicate that it was an accident.
Despite the device which prohibited access, the vehicle entered the RN20 around 5:30 a.m. In the middle of the night, without public lighting, the car collided head-on with a wall of straw bales, covered with a large black tarpaulin, just behind a large barn where demonstrators were eating. Three people, including the mother and her daughter, were mowed down by the vehicle which ended up colliding with a tractor.
According to the public prosecutor of Foix, there is, a priori, no “intentional character”. Police custody continues with a major question: what were these three Armenians doing at dawn on Tuesday on this portion of the highway closed to traffic.