the driver who killed Yannick Alléno's son sentenced to seven years in prison

JUSTICE – Road violence, the keystone of this trial. The verdict finally fell this Thursday, November 28 for the man accused of having killed the son of chef Yannick Alléno. Tried before the Paris criminal court for involuntary homicide, this 27-year-old driver, drunk at the time of the events, was not spared.

Found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and involuntary injury (with at least two aggravating circumstances: hit-and-run and violent robbery), Franky D. was sentenced to seven years in prison, one year less than the eight years of imprisonment. required by the prosecution against him. A sentence that the public prosecutor proposed to be accompanied by a committal warrant and a ban on driving for ten years.

Franky D. ultimately had his license revoked and was banned from using it for five years. As BFMTV specifies, his sentence was pronounced with provisional execution, which means that even in the event of an appeal, he will not escape prison. “He accumulated the imprudence which led to the tragedy”insisted the president at the time of the verdict.

“I have done the irreparable”

The 27-year-old man, who appeared free under judicial supervision at his trial, stole a car on May 8, 2022. Drunk and without a license, he hit a VTC, then a taxi after losing control of the vehicle. The last taxi then hit a scooter. A two-wheeler on which Antoine Alléno and his passenger were.

The 24-year-old young man, thrown from the scooter, did not survive his injuries, unlike his passenger, Anisa. After these tragic events, which occurred in the streets of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, the driver fled on foot, before being arrested shortly after and checked with 1.56 g/l of alcohol in his blood.

“I admit all the facts” except the violence, assured the hearing Franky D., also accused by a valet of having punched him when stealing this powerful Audi RS6. At the hearing, he also assured that he had “ committed the irreparable »convinced that without alcohol, “that would never have happened” product. He had six convictions on his criminal record at the time of the tragedy.

The fight of Yannick Alléno

In this affair which clearly relaunched in France the question of “ road homicide », two men were judged alongside Franky D.: René A., 47 years old, and Sniper G., 20 years old, prosecuted for theft in a meeting. Against them, the prosecution had respectively requested six months of imprisonment and nine months of suspended sentence, but they were finally acquitted this Thursday.

This judgment therefore marks the beginning of the end of a long journey for the family of the deceased young man, led by Yannick Alléno. The latter having taken head on the question of the offense of road homicide. First by creating the association bearing the name of his son, to help the relatives of victims of road violence.

Since then, he has defended at all costs the inclusion in law of the offense of “road homicide”. A bill was also very well underway in the National Assembly, before its dissolution during the summer.

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