According to information from “Parisien”, the driver suspected of being at the origin of the road accident which caused the death of Antoine Alléno declared that he was too drunk to remember the conditions of the drama.
The death of Antoine Alléno caused shock waves. Since Monday, messages in tribute to the cook, son of multi-starred chef Yannick Alléno, have multiplied on social networks. Just 24 years old, the young man had just been placed at the head of the restaurant “Burger Père et Fils”, launched last year with his father. He died this Sunday evening, hit by a driver, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
According to information from the “Parisien”, which quotes a police source, the driver was so drunk that he says he is unable to remember precisely the conditions in which he caused this tragedy. Aged 24 and residing in Bezons (Val-d’Oise), Francky D. is suspected of being the man who, after stealing an Audi RS6 by giving a fake ticket to the valet of a trendy restaurant in the center of Paris, violently hit a taxi and a scooter, both stopped at a red light not far from the Alma point. Antoine Alléno, who was driving the City Scoot, died instantly. His passenger, as well as the driver of VTC were both transported to the hospital but their lives are not in danger.
The driver tried to flee on foot. He was caught by an off-duty police officer from the Paris metropolitan area’s local security department (DSPAP). The police deployed on the spot wanted to check his alcohol level but as he refused to submit to the test, he was taken by force to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital for a blood sample. The daily adds that Francky D. was positive for the alcohol test but also for narcotics, without specifying which ones. “It is not a size of banditry, adds a source close to the investigation. It is rather a small delinquent without scale ”, can we read in the columns of the newspaper, which reports that the driver was targeted by a search sheet for a prison sentence which he had not served.