The driver who fatally hit Antoine Alléno on Sunday evening was indicted on Wednesday and remanded in custody.
The driver who fatally hit Antoine Alléno on Sunday evening, son of multi-starred chef Yannick Alléno, was indicted on Wednesday and remanded in custody, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. This man, who had been arrested shortly after the events, had been brought to the Paris court on Tuesday evening at the end of his police custody.
A judicial investigation has been opened for homicide and aggravated involuntary injuries (the suspect being intoxicated and having driven despite a canceled driver’s license), damage, intentional violence, theft and hit and run. The suspect was indicted on these counts by an investigating judge and imprisoned.
The Paris prosecutor’s office has also brought to execution two other sentences of six and three months’ imprisonment already on the criminal record of this man, which means that he will have to serve these nine months in prison. According to information from the Parisian, Francky D., from Val-d’Oise and 24 years old, said he was so drunk that he was unable to remember precisely the conditions in which he caused this tragedy.
A “promising and talented” young man
Antoine Alléno, 24, who was riding a scooter, was hit by a red light on Sunday around 11 p.m. in the VIIth district of the capital by a driver who had just “stolen a luxury vehicle”, according to a police source. The young man, who was at the head of the restaurant “Burger Père et Fils”, launched last year with his father, died on the spot.
A passenger who was on the scooter and a VTC driver were also hit, said the same source. Suffering from “multiple contusions”, they were transported to the hospital, their vital prognosis not being engaged. The driver “fled on foot” but was “quickly arrested by an off-duty policeman” from the Paris metropolitan area’s local security department (DSPAP), according to the source.
“Promising and talented, Antoine Alléno belonged to this new generation of cooks, determined to revolutionize the French gastronomic landscape,” his family said in a statement, expressing their “sorrow”.