Overview
- A white march was held in Saint-Omer on November 11 to honor the 19-year-old killed in Lille ten days earlier.
- The parents are urging a national law that would prohibit possession of nitrous oxide in vehicles and impose penalties affecting driving licences, and they also want lethal driving cases tried before Assizes courts.
- The family will be received by Gérald Darmanin in the coming days to present these proposals, according to their lawyer.
- The accused driver had consumed nitrous oxide, fled a police check, was driving without a licence, and is now indicted for aggravated road homicide and held in pretrial detention.
- Detection remains a hurdle because traces of nitrous oxide vanish in about 30 minutes and the gas can impair reflexes and perception, as Parliament still must reconcile differing bills while some cities, including Villeurbanne, enforce local bans.