“The life of Alice Richard was erased by this multi -registration man”. If the prosecution had requested 12 years in prison, it was for a sentence of ten years that the Brest Criminal Court (Finistère) condemned the motorist who had fatally mowed a young woman during of an urban rodeo One March 2024.
Marc-André M., 25, already sentenced eight times for flights, driving without license or drug trafficking, was tried For having mortally mowing the young woman of 24 years on March 31, 2024 at 01:50 am, on the port of Brest.
“It’s the signal for the race”
Incarcerated for more than a year, the accused admitted to the hearing that he was rolling at almost 140 km/h in the city, in the a race with two other vehicles. “They glued to me by making headlight calls, this is the signal of the race. I typed an access’ (an acceleration), “he narrated.
Alice Richard, who came out of an ad, was projected 20 m from the pedestrian crossing she was going through at that time. His friend Glénan G. suffered multiple injuries.
Without a license at the time of the facts, Marc André M. used to film himself on the Snapchat social network, rolling at high speed, a joint by hand. “I have always had a heavy foot but I was unconscious,” he said at the hearing, assuring not “being proud” of the facts that will “haunt him every day”.
During his police custody, the young man said that the victims “had nothing to do there”, having crossed the road diagonally.
“The only answer was the flight”
The representative of the Véronique Wester-Oisse prosecution, who had requested 12 years firm, vilified a “being veiled” mocking “madly of the others”. The defendant had, according to the magistrate, adopted a “road behavior which, added to the consumption of narcotics, could only lead to this result”. “Alice Richard’s life has been erased by this multi-wrist man,” she said.
Two years in prison, including a firm year, and six months suspended prison sentence were also required against two of his passengers for non-assistance to anyone in danger. “Everyone should have come down from the vehicle and help. The only answer was the flight, ”pointed out the magistrate.
On the evening of the facts, Alice Richard had sent an SMS to her parents to tell them that she was spending a “great evening”. “The phone rang three hours later to tell me that (she) was dead,” said her mother at the hearing, telling her daughter’s “so short life” “dead shattered in a puddle”.
In 2024, 3,190 people in total were killed on the roads of France (+ 0.7 % over a year), including 451 pedestrians.
