The file of Paolo Falzone, the driver imprisoned within the framework of the drama of Strépy-Bracquegnies, passed in front of the council chamber of Tournai, this Friday.
As a reminder, on March 20, 2022, the vehicle driven by Paolo Falzone had hit the crowd in the early morning, during a collection organized on the occasion of the carnival of Strépy-Bracquegnies, killing six people and injuring around thirty others. .He is being prosecuted for manslaughter and involuntary assault and battery resulting in death in the context of a road accident.
The Council Chamber had to decide whether Paolo remained incarcerated or not. She therefore decided to keep him in prison for the time being.
Note that a second hearing of the driver is scheduled for next week. It will certainly shed a little more light on this issue.
Here are the images of Paolo this Friday:
Not on drugs
We already knew that the driver had consumed alcohol at the time of the incident. The alcohol test carried out by the police immediately after the accident revealed that the Paolo Falzone had a blood alcohol level slightly above the legal limit.
As for the saliva test intended to give an indication of a possible consumption of narcotics, it had proved negative. However, it was necessary to wait for the results of the blood tests, supposed to determine with certainty whether or not the driver had taken drugs. According to what our colleagues from RTL announced on Thursday evening, the tests carried out by the investigators showed that the driver was not under the influence of narcotics.
Strépy drama: Paolo Falzone was not under the influence of drugs
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THE MEUSE Liège | on 04/28/2022 at 11:35
We already knew that the driver had consumed alcohol at the time of the incident. The breathalyser carried out by the police just after the accident revealed that the Paolo Falzone had an alcohol level of 0.29mg per liter of exhaled alveolar air, which constitutes a slight overrun of the authorized limit.