A former “proximity director” of the 24 -year -old SNCF at the time of the facts, is the only natural person to appear before the Evry Criminal Court. The 2013 rail accident left seven dead and several hundred injured.
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The hands grabbed at the helm of the Evry Criminal Court, the 33 -year -old young man turns furtively to the bench of the civil parties before speaking. “My thoughts go to these victims and their families, who will relive this catastrophe which should never have arrived,” he says in a posed voice. The faces of the victims are anchored in my head. There is not one day without my thinking about this terrible accident. “
On the third day of the trial of the railway accident in Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), which cost the life, in July 2013, to seven people and made several hundred injured, the “lampist”-like the nicknames some lawyers from the 184 civil parties – expressed himself for a long time, Wednesday, April 27, before the courtyard.
Only natural person to appear, alongside the “legal persons” pursued that are the SNCF and SNCF network, for “involuntary homicides” and “involuntary injuries”, this ex-proximity leader faces three years in prison and 45,000 Euros fine.
The investigating judges criticize this graduate of an engineering school, aged 24 at the time of the facts, of not having “noted the defects of bolt” on the section of railroads – a Metal piece called “scallops” is involved-where the Paris-Austerlitz-Limoges train derailed, at the speed of 137 km/h, this July 12, 2013. On July 4, 2013, or eight days before the drama, he had realized Only a “surveillance tour” in this sector without detecting “damage”.
On the day of the accident, the young local official was on vacation. On July 13, 2013, in the aftermath of the disaster, he returned on site “spontaneously, to lend a hand, to help the rehabilitation of the network” and to note the extent of the damage. “We feel responsible morally, the train derailed in front of my office,” said the native of Lyon, indicted in 2019. I was not there, otherwise, I would have seen it. I did not put as much ‘Implication, fervor in my work to live this kind of event. “
” it’s too hard to stay zen “
Fine glasses and blue shirt, the ex-Cadre Cheminot entered the SNCF in 2011, alternating, before becoming “security assistant to the production unit” in Juvisy (Essonne) then, in February 2013, “Proximity director” in Brétigny-sur-Orge. At the head “of about twenty” maintenance agents and responsible for watching on “50 kilometers of tracks”, he then held a “very” stressful and physical “operational” position.
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