Teen’s Death After World Cup Match: Suspect Arrested, Faces 20-Year Sentence

After his arrest at relatives’ in Perpignan, the driver of the car that hit and killed Aymen before fleeing to Spain must be presented before the magistrate, with a view to being charged with "fatal blows with a weapon", reports Midi Libre. He faces a 20-year criminal sentence.

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Lawyer Jean-Baptiste Mousset discusses his client’s arrest. "This arrest will necessarily help to calm minds as much as the media frenzy, the investigation will be long and will have to preserve the interests of everyone and find the qualification of the facts closest to the truth," he says.

Also, he felt the need to justify the fugitive driver’s flight after the tragedy. "If he fled, it’s also because he was afraid of reprisals against him and his loved ones, he waited for it to calm down," he says, however assuring that his client was preparing to surrender to French justice well before his arrest near Perpignan. "He had decided to return to the French justice system, he was supposed to turn himself in to the police, but that doesn’t change anything about the case."