The father of the little girl who was fatally mown down in Vallauris expressed his anger on BFMTV after the courts confirmed the motorcyclist’s judicial supervision, rather than deciding on a provisional detention order.
“I don’t even know why there will be a trial.” The father of Kamilya, a 7-year-old girl fatally struck by a motorbike in Vallauris at the end of August, expressed his anger and dismay on the evening of Wednesday, September 11, a few hours after the judicial review of the main suspect in his daughter’s death was confirmed by the courts. The Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal therefore confirmed the decision not to place the suspect in pretrial detention.
Slim Oussaya, like the rest of the little girl’s family, pleaded for the 19-year-old biker to be locked up. “His lawyer said ‘He doesn’t belong in prison’… where is her place? Does she realize what this young man she represents has done?” he asked on BFMTV.
Kamilya’s father has repeatedly expressed his loss of hope regarding the court’s decisions.
“Does justice realize that this biker committed murder? The murder he committed is because of his actions and his choices,” he repeats.
“He decided to forget the highway code and take the road for a playground. Did justice take that into account? What do we feel, as a family who lost a 7-year-old child? Or do we not care?” he continued.
“I don’t understand this world”
The investigating chamber of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal, seized by the Grasse public prosecutor’s office, considered that the main suspect was not a danger to society. It therefore confirmed the judicial review already decided by the judge of liberties and detention.
This judicial review involves the deprivation of his driving license, and requires him to “report once every two weeks to the Antibes police station” and not to “make contact” with the victim’s family. This decision also prohibits him from leaving the Alpes-Maritimes department. The girl’s family had already said they were “dismayed” by the failure to place the main suspect in pretrial detention.
“I don’t understand this world,” said Slim Oussaya, visibly tired.
“Nothing changes. (…) We always favour the thugs rather than the victims,” concluded the man, who also said he was “not sure” that the motorcyclist would be convicted after mowing down his daughter.
“I didn’t want this at all.”
During the hearing before the investigating chamber of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal on Tuesday, September 10, the main suspect, the 19-year-old motorcyclist who hit the little girl on a zebra crossing, claimed to have “lost his balance.” “I couldn’t avoid the little girl,” he concluded with difficulty.
A version that the family refutes by relying on video surveillance images. The young man pleaded several times that he “did not want this at all” and also shared his trauma after the accident.
“I don’t sleep, I eat very little (…), when I close my eyes I have the scene in my head,” he told the court.
The young man is being charged with involuntary manslaughter by the driver of a motor vehicle and a manifestly deliberate breach of a duty of safety or prudence. He faces seven years in prison.
