While Tessa Raimbault’s family is still awaiting trial following the 2018 death of a young woman struck by construction machinery in Loire-Atlantique, the suspect is back in prison, ICI Loire Océan said Saturday.
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The 27-year-old man suspected of fatally dropping young Tessa Raimbault in 2018 in Loire-Atlantique will return to prison after violating the terms of his judicial control by being tested drunk while driving, ICI Loire Océan (formerly France Bleu) learned, Saturday November 22, 2025, from corroborating sources, confirming information from Presse-Océan. This information was confirmed by the Nantes prosecutor’s office and Tessa’s family.
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On the afternoon of 20 December 2018, Tessa, a 17-year-old girl, was returning home to Saint-Julien-de-Concelles when she was hit by a construction machine. The driver fled. Arrested more than four years later, in 2023, the young man finally admitted the facts before recanting several weeks later before an investigating judge. He was imprisoned and later released under judicial supervision in February 2024.
This young man, like him from Saint-Julien-de-Concelles, near Nantes, tested drunk with two grams of alcohol in his blood while driving a car in the Vendée in October.
Tessa’s death case has not yet reached court. Over the summer, the Nantes prosecutor’s office requested that the suspect be referred to court “murder”with hit-and-run as an aggravating circumstance. “We hope this will speed up the procedure, but this is still conjecture. In this story, no one is a winner. I think deeply about him, his family and us. The protracted legal delays make things worse”underline Florence, Tessa’s mother, on Saturday.
