A woman has been jailed for seven years, and banned from driving for 10 years, for a hit-and-run in the Var which killed a seven-year-old boy and left his nine-year-old brother permanently disabled. The incident happened in Fréjus in August 2021. The boys and their parents were on a pedestrian crossing when the speeding driver lost control of her 4x4, crashed into a barrier and rebounded into the family, who were on holiday from the eastern French city of Metz. Seven-year-old Amine died a few hours later. Nine-year-old Naïm was airlifted to hospital where he had to have a leg amputated. Their mother was also seriously injured and has to use crutches to walk. Blood tests found the driver was drunk and under the influence of drugs. She and her passenger, who were 24 at the time, tried to flee the scene but were stopped by passers-by. The crash led to an outpouring of emotion in Fréjus at the time, with locals organising a vigil for the young boy.
The Alpes-Maritimes department has made an urgent appeal to the French government for help, saying it can no longer cope with the surge in the number of migrants entering France from Italy. The departmental council's president Charles-Ange Ginésy said local reception centres were beyond saturated - and the state needed to do more to help unaccompanied minors in particular. His comments come after it was revealed this week that 18 young migrants were being detained by French border police in a 25-square-metre portakabin in Menton due to a lack of reception space.
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