This Thursday, November 28, 2024, the Paris court delivered its verdict, sentencing the driver who caused the fatal accident of Antoine Alléno, the son of chef Yannick Alléno, to 7 years in prison, a sentence close to the prosecution’s requisitions.
The Paris criminal court delivered its verdict this Thursday, November 28, 2024, concerning the trial of the man accused of having caused the fatal accident of Antoine Alléno. Aged 24, the son of the famous chef Yannick Alléno, who was riding a scooter, succumbed to his injuries, after a collision with a car traveling at 120 kilometers per hour, in the streets of the seventh arrondissement of the capital, during the night of May 8, 2022. The driver – who had tried to flee before being arrested – was driving without his license and had been checked with 1.56 g/l of alcohol in blood (the authorized limit being 0.5 g/l of blood).
Death of Antoine Alléno: the driver sentenced to 7 years in prison
In February 2023, the driver was released under judicial supervision, arousing great emotion from the Alléno family, who expressed their regrets.that French law does not allow the perpetrator to be kept in pre-trial detention until the trial“. During a hearing at the end of October 2024, the public prosecutor requested eight years in prison for the accused, the cancellation of his driving license and a ban on retaking it for ten years. This Thursday 28 November, The court finally sentenced the 27-year-old man to 7 years in prison “with deferred committal, which means that he will not be incarcerated immediately, but that his detention will be”. organized with a judge. The man being prosecuted was convicted for all the acts with which he was accused, BFM TV reported early this afternoon.
Death of Antoine Alléno: the terrible confidences of his father Yannick Alléno
Questioned on France 2 in May 2023, Yannick Alléno spoke about the terrible memories he has of the night of the tragedy: “When it happened on May 8, Antoine left from downstairs. And I arrived to a scene of chaos. There was a pile of cars, law enforcement, firefighters, my son was lying on the ground in his blood. We are in a chaotic scene. And that’s why I compare this act today to what we saw at the Bataclan“, he explained, detailing his fight to eliminate the qualification of involuntary homicide in favor of the term road homicide in such circumstances.
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