Collapsed balconies in Angers: prison sentences required against three defendants

The Prosecutor has required, inter alia, Wednesday, March 2, four years in prison, including two suspended against the architect of the building. The drama had cost four young people from 18 to 25 years old, in 2016.

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At the end of three weeks of trial, the Prosecutor of the Republic of Angers, Eric Bouillard, required prison against three of the five defendants. “Your irresponsibility must stop there, do not appeal, do not be loose,” had launched Mathilde Rondeau, Monday, February 28, referring to the trauma of this October 15, 2016. It’s the apartment. Shared with his Berenice sister that was offered the balcony who had taken away eighteen students that nights that night. Four young people aged 18 to 25 people died, the others were seriously injured. All survivors testified from the body and psychic trauma generated by this drama.

In the evening of this trial that ends, the public prosecutor is looked at the responsibilities of the five defendants. Eric Bouillard recalled the terrible finding of the experts who testified to the bar. “According to them, when a balcony is well done, he does not fall after eighteen years. The widespread lax who reigned on this site was the fact of these five.”

Against Jean-Marcel Moreau, 63, the retired construction site manager, the Prosecutor of the Republic claimed eighteen months in prison. “His fault, he knows her is not having asked for a modifying plan after the change of constructive mode of the balconies, he explained. He agreed to do what you do not have to do. And What he did not know how to make the balconies on the spot. This method that was never used by the company Bonnel, and who will no longer be. “The same sentence is required against André de Douvan, 84 years old , the holder of the APAVE, the control office.

“Deliberate fault”

against Eric Morand, 53 years old, which will break in tears a little later, the prosecutor requires three years in prison, of which eighteen months suspended, 10,000 euros fine and the prohibition of the profession of works driver. “He followed a training, he knew the rules, knew we did not do anything without a plan. He thought it louder than the engineer. Mr. Moreau is probably more incompetent than cheater, Mr. Morand C ‘is the opposite. “

But it is against the former business leader and the architect that the parquet representative is the hardest. Against Patrick Bonnel, 72, who said his “shame” and recognized the malford during this trial, he claims three years of imprisonment, one year with a stay, 30 000 euros fine and a definitive prohibition of managing a company. “This work did you participate in a personal capacity, you have decided on the change of constructive mode, decided not to use new plans. It is you who have left your employees working without a way, without method, without experience” , said the prosecutor.

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