On July 3, 83-year-old Marcel died after being hit by the 81-year-old motorist in Saint-Malo. The accident could have ended even more tragically, because the victim’s 13-year-old granddaughter was also hit. The teenager was thrown several meters away, but miraculously survived the accident.
The driver who caused the accident had already killed an 80-year-old pedestrian three months earlier on the same boulevard. But because the court had not revoked his driver’s license after the first accident, he was allowed to continue driving, the French channel ‘RMC’ reports.
In France, the driver’s license is not automatically withdrawn in the event of a fatal accident.
This is incomprehensible to the family members of the second victim. “The police should have withheld this man’s driver’s license. I don’t understand why they didn’t. How can the police, the legal system, allow the perpetrator of a murder to continue driving, albeit involuntarily?” wonders May Sarah Vogelhut, the lawyer of Marcel’s daughter. “We can’t bring Marcel back with this, but we have to make sure this doesn’t happen again. Never again,” concludes the lawyer.