Former Formula 1 driver Jean Alesi will take part in the 12th edition of the Historic Monaco Grand Prix on April 24, 2021 in Monaco, Monaco.
Ex-Formula 1 driver Jean Alesi is on trial in 2023 after he blew the window of his brother-in-law with a firecracker, what the former driver called a “bad joke”, AFP learned from the prosecutor on Tuesday.
The 57-year-old Alesi is being tried in the Nimes District Court for “dangerous means of damaging the property of others in a family conflict,” local prosecutor Eric Maurel told AFP.
Maurel added that Alesi’s son is also being prosecuted for complicity in the incident.
The two were allowed to leave the Avignon Police Station, where they had been in custody since Monday afternoon.
The incident took place in Villeneuve-les-Avignon, where the 57-year-old former Ferrari driver lives.
The police were called on Sunday at around 10:00 p.m. local time by neighbors who were concerned about the sound of an explosion.
A vehicle discovered by a neighbor on the premises with the lights off was traced to Alesi’s brother, Jose, who was arrested.
Jean Alesi went to the police on Monday to release his brother and said he had been in the car with his son and a friend.
Alesi stuck a “large fireworks display bought in Italy” into the window frame of his brother-in-law’s architecture office, “without thinking of such damage,” said Deputy Public Prosecutor Antoine Wolff.
Alesi, who won Formula 1 in his 13-year career, said he was just trying to make 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, nevertheless filed a complaint about the damage to the window frame, said Wolff.
“I’m pretty skeptical if a ‘joke’ is made at 10:00 p.m. without the person concerned knowing who it is,” said Wolff.
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