2023-07-16 11:42:07
The debate resurfaced after the Palmade affair and a series of tragedies on the roads. It has now been done: the government is going to create an offense of “road homicide”, whereas currently the acts of drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol having caused the death of a person fall under the “manslaughter”, indicates a source close to the file to Parisian, confirming information from BFM TV.
The announcement must be made this Monday by the Prime Minister during an interministerial committee devoted to road safety (CISR), which will be held in Matignon. According to BFMTV, at this stage, however, the government does not provide for a new sanctions regime.
“I hear that it may shock,” said Elisabeth Borne in May. “There is a terminology issue,” she added, explaining that it was a “symbolic but important aspect”. The Prime Minister then explained that the Ministers of Justice and of the Interior were “looking at” the possibility of creating this offense of “road homicide”. In February, Gérald Darmanin had already announced that he wanted to rename fatal accidents caused by drugs and alcohol as road homicides.
“How can I be made to accept that the one whose name I don’t want to pronounce could not have known that he was going to kill him in the state he was in? What was involuntary with Pierre Palmade when he took the wheel under the influence of drugs? ” protested in May in our columns the star chef Yannick Alléno, whose son was mowed down by a drunk driver last year.
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