The driver indicted – Liberation
Panic, drugs and disabled permits. The VTC driver who has Wednesday evening reversed three PSG supporters celebrating the victory of their club in Champions League was indicted this Sunday, May 11 and placed under judicial supervision, announced the Paris prosecutor’s office.
« The driver was indicted this day of chiefs of violence with weapon by destination followed by inability » higher or less than 8 days depending on the injured, as well as for « Strip of flight, use of narcotics and conduct despite invalidation of the driving license »said the prosecution. It was placed under judicial supervision with the prohibition of driving vehicles and a fortiori to exercise as a VTC driver.
Wednesday evening, the driver found himself in the middle a host of supporters who would have taken it to his vehicle. So he would have « panic » And pressing the accelerator, according to his lawyer Me Hedi Dakhlaoui. At least one of the three injured filed a complaint. One of them, a minor, was seriously. He was transported to the hospital with a committed vital prognosis. He was still hospitalized Thursday evening according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The latest news, his days would no longer be in danger.
The VTC driver presented himself on Thursday to the authorities and was placed in police custody, in a survey entrusted to the territorial security by the Paris prosecutor’s office. His police custody was lifted on Saturday evening and was presented to justice in the process.
Sunday, Me Dakhlaoui described the placement under judicial supervision of his client as « Salvating decision which comes to this file the dimension which has been its from the start, that is to say the panic reaction of a man exceeded in the face of an inadmissible context of which he is in no way at the origin ». “Justice refused to give in to the media coverage of this file. It will now be up to the judicial investigation to go into the bottom of things and shed light on all aspects of this dossier ”he added.
In total, at least 45 people had been arrested in this evening of celebrations of PSG supporters. The prosecution had specified Friday evening that 7 of these people were finally to be presented to justice.