Six months ago, in the middle of carnival pick-up in Strépy-Bracquegnies, six people lost their lives and around thirty others were injured after being hit by Paolo F.’s vehicle. Today, the investigation continues in order to determine the exact circumstances of the tragedy and to establish the responsibilities of the driver and his passenger. A driver who was used to excessive speeds and dangerous behavior… And who would have filmed himself at the wheel on the morning of the tragedy.
This is what Sudinfo reveals this morning. The video would have been deleted just after the accident by the driver but could have been recovered by the investigators following the analysis of the smartphone and the computer system of the vehicle. A damning video, which adds to other elements that already weigh against the driver. Indeed, while he had declared driving at 90 kilometers per hour, in a zone nevertheless limited to 50, it seems that the speed was 160 kilometers per hour.
Obviously impossible, at such speed, to avoid the collision with the procession of Gilles in full festivities. It will also be recalled that the investigation is not complete and that the technical analyzes of Paolo F.’s vehicle, carried out in Germany, are still awaited. Did the latter know that a gille, hit a few seconds earlier, was still under its wheels when it continued on its way for about ten meters? Many victims believe so, making the tragedy even more difficult to accept.
Last August, the Mons indictment chamber confirmed the preventive detention for two months and the reclassification of the facts as murder for one of the victims, decided by the Tournai council chamber against Paolo F.