Alexandre Pigeard
Died 3 June 2017
Who they were
Alexandre was a waiter at Boro Bistro and had lived in London for less than a year. The eldest of six, he loved music and was nicknamed "King of the Night" by his friends. He planned to open a restaurant in Nantes and to produce his first techno EP with his father. His family called him "a big brother, a confidant, whose joy of living was contagious".
What happened
He went outside to see what had happened when the van crashed. On the evening of Saturday 3 June 2017, three men drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then attacked people with knives around Borough Market. Eight people were killed and many injured. Police shot the attackers within ten minutes, so there was no trial; inquests in 2019 found the victims had been unlawfully killed.
Verdict / confirmation
No trial – attackers killed at the scene. Inquests (Old Bailey, 2019): all eight victims unlawfully killed; attackers lawfully killed by police.
Status: No trial
Perpetrator: Three attackers, all shot dead by police: one born in Jhelum, Pakistan (British citizen, indefinite leave to remain 2004); one Moroccan/Libyan (UK asylum claim refused 2009); one Italian-Moroccan, born in Fez, Morocco (BBC, inquest).