Family Maymouna (5) looks road hog for the first time in the eyes

Sint-Niklaas The driver who, on 20 August a mother with her two children of the pavement was waving at the Antwerpse Steenweg in Sint-Niklaas on Wednesday for the magistrates ' court-appeared. With the accident came the 5-year-old who Maymouna Diallo to life. The driver sat for five month in the cell, and was only recently released under conditions. The pleadings are at the request of the civil parties with one month delayed.

The accident that the young girl killed, happened just before the entrance of the department store Lidl. The toddler went along with mama Zeinabou (42) her sister Kadidiatou (8) even a few groceries in the supermarket, when they suddenly all three on the sidewalk were swept off by the car of A. C. (21). That was with high speed control on the steering wheel of his car, lost. The Dutchman with Angolan roots had no driving licence and drove a borrowed car. The 5-year-old Maymouna Diallo survived the blow. The toddler was killed. Her mother injured and is still today to convalesce. Her other daughter was there with a few breaks from. She, meanwhile, is already back to school.

The mother was Wednesday, not present at the start of the process. Her family was represented. It was the first time that they are eye-to-eye came with a driver, A. C., Who was five months stuck in the cell and was only on 21 January this year released under conditions. He currently resides with family in Sint-Niklaas. A. C. stood at the end of last year, also served in the criminal court of Dendermonde for the possession of drugs. The police of Sint-Niklaas during a control in 2016 in the Lavendelstraat a half gram of cocaine found in him. Before he was sentenced to three months in prison, of which two months delay.

For the accident on the Antwerpse Steenweg he is prosecuted for unintentional killing, accidental blows and injuries, send without a valid driver's license and commit vluchtmisdrijf. The young man said earlier that he was distracted by passengers in the car.

To pleas came Wednesday, not yet. The lawyer for the civil parties asked the magistrate Miguel Ureel postponement because he is only confirmation of the insurance of the borrowed car with which the accident happened. That has only after long insistence, also a counsel appointed but who must now first file to examine. For the family of the lost infant, it is important, however, that the insurance is involved in the lawsuit for the refund of all the pain and damage. The court went in to the request, and now has a month of respite. The case will be on march 27, pleaded.