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Jean Alesi advised Thursday’s listening to he took full duty for the incident. (AFP Photograph)
The incident in query came about on December 19, 2021 in Villeneuve-les-Avignon within the southern Gard area the place Alesi has a home
A French courtroom acquitted former Ferrari driver Jean Alesi on Thursday of expenses regarding an “idiotic” firework prank that backfired badly on his brother-in-law.
Alesi, 58, and his son Guiliano, 23, have been within the dock in Nimes magistrates courtroom after blowing up his brother-in-law’s window with a firecracker, in what the ex Formulation One driver has known as a “dangerous joke”.
The Alesis have been let off a cost of “damaging the property of others by a method harmful to folks, dedicated within the context of a household battle”.
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The incident in query came about on December 19, 2021 in Villeneuve-les-Avignon within the southern Gard area the place Alesi has a home.
The police acquired a tip-off round 10pm native time from residents involved after listening to an explosion.
A neighbour noticed a automobile leaving the scene with its lights off. That automobile was traced to Alesi’s brother Jose who was arrested.
Jean Alesi went to the police station the next day to clear his brother, explaining that he had been the one within the automobile together with his son and a buddy.
Alesi stated he had caught a “giant firework purchased in Italy” into the body of a window of his brother-in-law’s architect’s workplace “with out imagining inflicting such harm”, the deputy prosecutor Antoine Wolff stated on the time.
Alesi, who scored one victory in his 13-year profession in F1, defined that he solely wished to play a “dangerous joke” on his brother-in-law.
The brother-in-law, who stated he had “no drawback” with Alesi, nonetheless filed a criticism for the harm to the window-frame.
Alesi advised Thursday’s listening to he took full duty for the incident.
“I apologise as a result of I’ve by no means had such an embarrassing scenario in my life. It was idiotic.”
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He added: “I used to be completely shocked by the ability of the explosion. The intention was to have fun.”
Alesi’s lawyer Thibaut de Montbrial stated there was a household custom to set off fireworks in instances of happiness within the Alesi household.
“And Jean Alesi was over the moon that night time to be reunited together with his son after months of separation as a result of Covid,” de Montbrial defined.
The general public prosecutor accepted that it was a “dangerous prank” and famous that Alesi had paid damages to his brother-in-law.
In its ruling acquitting Alesi and his son the courtroom famous the absence of any “aspect of intent” behind the incident.
Alesi drove for Ferrari between 1991-1995, successful the one Grand Prix of his profession for the Scuderia in Canada.
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