Justice pronounced a sentence of five years in prison “entirely covered by a single suspended”, below the requisitions of the prosecution which had requested a sentence of five years of imprisonment with a three -year suspended suspended suspended.
Le Monde with AFP
The driver of a dump truck whose tragic oblivion had caused the death of six teenagers, on February 11, 2016 in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime), in a collision with their school transport bus, was sentenced on Thursday May 5 to five years in suspended prison sentence by the La Rochelle Criminal Court.
The court pronounced a sentence of five years in prison “entirely covered by a simple stay”, below the requisitions of the prosecution which had requested a sentence of five years of imprisonment with a three -year suspension of probationary. Shortly after the statement of judgment, the 29-year-old young man, diagnosed in post-traumatic stress and under heavy antidepressant treatment, fell to the ground, taken from discomfort.
This drama was one of the most serious accidents for transporting children who have occurred in France since that of Beaune in 1982, which had left 53 dead (including 44 children). On the morning of February 11, 2016 in Rochefort, when it was still dark and heaped, the coach had crossed the road to a dump truck left for an Eiffage warehouse 800 meters away.
The side of the coach had been shealed by the open truck, killing six of the fifteen teenagers on board, five high school students and a college student. Two others had been injured. A few days after the accident, the 23 -year -old driver had been indicted for unintentional homicides and injuries, and left free under judicial supervision.
In the trial which was to shed light on the responsibility of the company Eiffage, owner of the dump truck involved in the accident, and its driver, the company benefited from a dismissal and the driver had been returned to justice.