One year after the tragedy, an octogenarian was sentenced to 4 years in prison suspended for manslaughter aggravated by the La Rochelle Criminal Court on Tuesday, July 22. On June 5, 2024, this woman of 83 ans had borrowed an avenue limited to 30 km/h, before hitting a group of twelve children rolling by bicycle head on. A ten -year -old girl had succumbed to her injuries two days later and six other children were injured. The octogenarian had continued on his way, before a witness helps him to stop. She had been negatively controlled with alcohol and narcotics.
Absent Tuesday, this former seller, now a widow, had held at the hearing on July 1 Confused and often emotional wordssaying only having made a “discomfort” and remembering nothing, before presenting, in tears, his apologies to the victims. The court followed the penalties required by the prosecutor, also pronouncing the cancellation of the driver’s license, a ban on passing it for five years and a ticket of 200 euros.
“This accident could have been largely avoidable,” said the magistrate, saying that the octogenarian, who had known several discomforts, “was not able to drive.
