Claude Khayat and Eric Robic, two Frenchmen involved in the death of Israeli Lee Zeitouni in September 2011 in a hit-and-run in Tel Aviv, will be summoned before a judge in Paris beginning of September and be indicted for manslaughter and failure to aid a person in danger, French newspaper Le Figaro reported.
The maximum fine for the offenses, inclunding the hit-and-run, is ten years in prison and a fine of 150,000 euros.
Lee Zeitouni, a 25-year-old gym teacher, was walking to her work when she was hit and killed by the two Frenchmen’s BMW SUV driving at high speed. The two hastily fled Israel after the incident in order to avoid Israeli justice.
Their behavior aroused great emotion in the Israeli public.
Robic was arrested before dawn on Thursday, following a brawl involving criminals in a night club of Juan- les- Pins, a French Riviera town, where he was vacationing. He had an unlicensed gun. It's the second time he has been arrested for various crimes in the last year.
''This attitude does not surprise me at all, given what I know of this man,'' said Gilles-William Goldnadel, lawyer of Lee Zeitouni’s family, expressing the hope the two men would be placed in a "extremely strict" judicial review.
Roi Peled, Zeitouni's partner, stressed that "Robic was an offender before Lee was killed and he sticks to his criminal ways. I hope French authorities address this issue seriously… I hope this time he won't be able to get away with it with his money and sharp lawyers."