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The District Court of Brest sentenced to 24 months in prison, six of which were closed, a woman who had overthrown a young man while driving under the influence of sleeping pills.
In front of the door of his courtroom of the TGI of Brest, Marie Morvan wipes her tears. "24 months in prison, six of which are closed? So that's the life of our 14 year old son? The public prosecutor had nevertheless required three years of prison, two of which suspended. "We find decidedly very lenient justice to the mis en cause," says Daniel, her husband. The emotion was palpable yesterday, at the High Court of Brest, where this case of manslaughter was presented as a case study.
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On June 27, 2012, around 3 pm, Odette Bihan-Le Borgne, then aged 73, drove on a 70 km / h limited road in the municipality of Lesneven (Finistère), when she mortally mowed 14-year-old cyclist Owen Morvan, and failed to hit his best friend, who drove several meters in front of him. "The car drove to the right, as if it was heading towards Owen," said the main witness of the scene, who was driving behind the Clio in the septuagenarian. "She did not slow down even after the shock." A shock yet very violent. Owen is thrown against the windshield and pbades over the vehicle
Under the influence of a heavy medicated badtail
Coming out of his car, this woman speaks to the young man, holds her hand until she that he sinks into a fatal coma. "What shocked me the most," she said, "is the attitude of Ms. Le Borgne, who kept asking for the time and if 'it would last a long time' and plagued against 'a new bustle'. She did not make a gesture to the victim. She did not really seem in her normal state. The tests conducted later by the authorities will show that the driver had not consumed alcohol or narcotics but was under the influence of a heavy drug badtail. Including two level 2 and one level 3 medications: zolpidem, a potent benzodiazepine-like sleeping pill, often marketed in France under the name Stilnox. A product on the box of which a pictogram representing a car placed in a red triangle indicates: "Attention danger: do not drive". At 3:00 pm that day, she still had a high dose in the body: 0.14mg / L of blood
A "very selective memory" defendant
During the trial, Nadine Lémeillat , of the Paris Bar, which defends the interests of the civil party, was offended, like the court, by the attitude of the defendant "to the very selective memory", which, "not once, is not is excused from the family, or even pronounced Owen's first name. "
Since 2013, the Morvan family has set up the badociation" Pour Owen ", the only one in France that aims to raise awareness and increase the vigilance of citizens on the consumption of level 2 and 3 drugs at the wheel, and to try to have it recognized as an offense in the Penal Code – as well as the consumption of alcohol or narcotics. Marie and Daniel Morvan have already been received by the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, and even the National Assembly, but "things have not moved yet," they regret. "Many European countries have already taken the lead – France, it is very late. We intend to send this week an open letter to Emmanuel Macron, who had already responded to us during his presidential campaign. "It is a question of safety and public health," says their lawyer, who will now rush to seize the order of doctors and pharmacists. "They have their share of responsibility in this case; having prescribed and dispensing doses of drugs far too high "to the driver, she estimates.
Free exit of the court, the driver will have to appear on August 27 before a judge of the application of the punishments for a possible adjustment of his sentence.
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