元F1ドライバーのアレジ氏、親族の事務所を爆竹で破損
地元の検察によると、アレジ氏は「家族同士のいさかいで、人に危害が及ぶ可能性のある手段による器物損壊罪」で軽罪裁判所での公判に臨む。アレジ氏の息子も、共犯罪に問われる見通しだという。
2人は20日午後から仏アビニョンの警察署で留置されていたが、現在は拘束を解かれている。
事件はアレジ氏の住むアビニョン近郊のビルヌーブレザビニョンで19日夜に起こり、爆発音を不安に思った近くの住人が警察に通報。警察は、現場で目撃されたライトを消した車の所有者がアレジ氏の兄弟であることを突き止め、兄弟に対し事情聴取を行った。
しかし翌20日、アレジ氏が兄弟の無実を証明するため警察署へ出頭し、車に乗っていたのは自分と息子、友人の3人だと説明した。
検察によると、アレジ氏は義理の兄弟の建築事務所の窓枠に「イタリアで買った巨大な爆竹」を置いたが、「あれほど威力があるとは思っていなかった」と話しているという。アレジ氏は、自身の姉妹と別居中の義理の兄弟に対するほんの「悪い冗談」のつもりだったと釈明している。
義理の兄弟は、アレジ氏との仲に「何も問題はない」と話す一方、窓枠の破損による被害届を出している。
アレジ氏はフェラーリなどからF1に13シーズン参戦し、グランプリ1勝を挙げた。【翻訳編集AFPBBNews】
〔AFP=時事〕(2021/12/22-13:18)
Ex-F1 driver Alesi faces court date for 'bad joke' explosion
Ex-Formula 1 driver Jean Alesi faces a 2023 court appearance after blowing up his brother-in-law's window with a firecracker in what the former driver called a bad joke, AFP learned from the prosecutor's office on Tuesday.
Alesi, 57, will be tried at the Nimes magistrate's court for damaging the property of others by a means dangerous to people, committed in the context of a family conflict, the local public prosecutor Eric Maurel told AFP.
Maurel added that Alesi's son will also be prosecuted for complicity in the incident.
The two were allowed to leave Avignon police station where they had been held in custody since Monday afternoon.
The incident occurred in Villeneuve-les-Avignon where the 57-year-old former Ferrari driver resides.
The police had been called Sunday around 10pm local time by neighbours, concerned about the sound of an explosion.
A vehicle which was spotted by a neighbour at the site leaving with its lights off was traced to Alesi's brother Jose who was arrested.
Jean Alesi went to the police station on Monday to clear his brother, explaining that he had been the one in the car with his son and a friend.
Alesi said he had stuck a large firework bought in Italy into the frame of a window of his brother-in-law's architect's office without imagining causing such damage, said the deputy prosecutor Antoine Wolff.
Alesi, who scored one victory in his 13-year career in F1, explained that he only wanted to play a bad joke on his brother-in-law, who is currently separated from Alesi's sister.
The brother-in-law, who says he has no problem with Alesi, nonetheless filed a complaint for the damage to the windowframe, said Wolff.
I am quite sceptical about the notion of a 'joke' carried out at 10pm without the person concerned knowing who it is, added Wolff.
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