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Maxime C had caused the death of Léo Soulet-Pioppo on the night of December 23 to 24, 2021. The 29-year-old Agen, who had taken the wheel by being strongly alcoholic that evening, was tried before the Agen court on Wednesday May 7.
The usually joyful period of the end of year celebrations is only the recall of an irreparable drama for the family of Léo Soulet-Pioppo. More than three years after the young man’s death in December 2021, the highly alcoholic motorist who struck his vehicle was tried before the Agen Criminal Court on Wednesday May 7. It is in the presence of the relatives of Léo Soulet-Pioppo, on the one hand, and those of the respondent Maxime C, on the other, that justice rendered its decision, after a trial charged with emotion.
The hearing started with a difficult step back on the evening of December 23 to 24. After an alcoholic trip in a bar in the city center of Agen, Maxime C engages on the quay of Dunkirk and headed head-on the vehicle of Léo Soulet-Pioppo, removing the life of the young man described by his entourage as a person “who radiated”, “listening and always positive”.
The disappearance of the young man forever writes in the hearts of his loved ones an immeasurable pain which, this Wednesday, May 7, resonates in the courtroom through the words of his father. “I received a call: my world collapsed. Everything I had taught him, no longer exists. Leo was my only child. It’s been three and a half years since we laugh.”
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“I have no words. I regret everything that could have caused,” begins the respondent, the absent gaze, the hesitant voice. Maxime C does not dispute the facts of which he has, in any case, not the slightest snipper of memories. Neither shock nor the evening preceding him. That evening, the young Agen had started his vehicle in an advanced state of drunkenness. A few times earlier, seeing that the man barely held on his two legs, a server had however tried to dissuade him. 3.39 grams of alcohol per liter of blood will be noted in the individual. “A rate that we rarely see. Others would be on the ground, in ethyl coma,” supports the public prosecutor.
-If the paths of Maxime and Léo crossed by chance in this very dark night of December 2021, the two young men were not strangers. “We met in high school. We were friends. He had come to eat at home, a few months before the accident,” explains the respondent.
“I no longer feel in my place. I am ashamed of what I did.” Since the accident, the young man, father of a three -year -old child, has not touched the wheel. The resumption of rugby, recommended by health professionals ensuring its psychological follow -up – as explained by his advicee SIHEM KECHAD – He serves as a release.
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“A torture” for those close to the victim
“This death, given by a disorderly conduct, will fade for you in the happiness that you will find when you take your son in your arms or to replay rugby.” Dad “, which you continue to hear, they will no longer hear it. They no longer have their son,” pleads the lawyer for the parents of the victim, Me Edouard Martial.
For the parents of Léo, endless were the years which have passed between the brutal disappearance of their son, and the judgment of the one who caused him. A heavy judicial slowness, which their council did not fail to underline. “It was long, very long, to arrive in this court. They suffered, it was torture for them”.
Maxime C was sentenced to four years in prison, three of which were suspended, as the prosecution had requested. The year in prison will be fitted out in the form of home detention under electronic bracelet. The cancellation of his driving license was also pronounced. The audience ended on the words of Maxime C, adding its apologies to the family of the victim.
