The families of the victims and the passengers of the Paris-Limoges train which derailed in July 2013 testified, Wednesday, June 1 and Thursday, June 2, at the Evry Criminal Court.
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Jean C. “curled up in a fetal position” when he felt, on July 12, 2013, at 5:11 p.m., that the intercity train 3657 Paris Austerlitz-Limoges was going to derail at Brétigny-sur-Orge station (Essonne). That day, the sixty-something man was seated “by car 2, place 81”. At the time of the disaster, he remembers the “burnt smells, dust and luggage everywhere” in the “distorted wagon in terms of the outlets”.
If Jean C. has managed to get out of the train unscathed by breaking the window with his feet “, this rail disaster made several hundred injured and cost the lives of seven people, four of whom were on the quay Number 3 of Brétigny-sur-Orge station. Between indignation and sadness, around forty of the 184 civil parties chose to come and testify at the helm of the Evry Criminal Court (Essonne), during the accident trial.
“I learned of my brother’s death via journalists on Sunday morning [July 14, 2013], who called me at home to ask if it was accepted that his name be in the OCR section,” said in S It can be sobbed Stephen C., Wednesday 1
“Interminable research”
This July 12, 2013, Stephen C. vainly calls on Vincent’s mobile phone in the late afternoon then goes to Brétigny-sur-Orge station, “far from thinking” that he was “gone For endless research “. He then goes around the local hospitals then, after having seen images of the disaster on television, he realizes the obvious: “I knew where my brother was put on the quay of the station and that he did not had not been able to get out of it. “
In turn, the passengers of the intercity train paraded at the helm under the moved gaze of the civil parties. Vincent R. was sitting in the “Wagon number 4” when “he went to his side”. He and his partner, Morgane B., 26, were then “projected against the glass”. “In this chaos, I tightened her sweater but, when the window gave in, she was swept away,” he recalled.
Morgane is one of the three passengers on the deceased train. During his testimony to the court, his mother, Brigitte B., knowingly “turned her back” to the legal representatives of the SNCF and SNCF Network (ex-rail of France), who appear as a legal person, for “manslaughter. “and” involuntary injuries “, alongside a railway worker.
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