The driver was identified more than four years after the incident, before being released under court supervision. He was jailed again after recent offences.
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The 27-year-old man, suspected of knocking out young Tessa Raimbault in 2018 in the Loire-Atlantique before fleeing, will be tried on January 5 by the Nantes criminal court, the Loire Océan (formerly France Bleu) learned on Wednesday from Tessa’s mother and her family’s lawyer Damien Legrand. The 27 year old youth will be tried “murder” with hit-and-run as an aggravating circumstance.
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 jailed, then released under judicial supervision in February 2024.
In recent days, the suspect, like Tessa, from Saint-Julien-de-Concelles, near Nantes, returned to prison after undergoing an alcohol test with two grams of alcohol in his blood while driving a car in the Vendée last month. However, he was banned from driving, as part of a judicial review.
