Over the hearings, the civil parties will be accompanied financially and psychologically.
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Before the opening of the Millas School School accident trial (Pyrénées -Orientales) -which had killed six people and seventeen injured, in 2017 -, employees of the victim assistance association Delinquency acts (Avad) of Marseille will discover the places in the civil parties. They will be able to deposit their luggage in a room, be brought in meal trays or lunch at the SNCF administrative restaurant next to the court, benefit from rest rooms, meet lawyers and psychologists. Until parking which has been negotiated at the highest level with the Ministry of Defense to allow them to park in the Muy barracks, where the judicial court has premises and a courtroom that can Welcome 400 people for extraordinary trials. Their hotel, meal, trips costs will be reimbursed them every week and not months after the hearing. A reception guide containing all the practical information has been sent to them.
The approximately 120 civil parties – parents of deceased or injured children, young victims of the accident today for some – will for three weeks benefit from a reception and support prepared for months by the Judicial courts of Marseille and Perpignan. A way to compensate for the difficulty for these inhabitants of municipalities in the Pyrénées-Orientales to have to follow the trial in Marseille.
It is due to a competence extended to seven appeal courses for the treatment of collective accidents that the Marseille court has instructed and judges this file. From the start, everything has been designed to compensate for the effects of this “change of scenery” of the file: information meetings and hearing of the civil parties relocated to the Palais de Justice de Perpignan during the investigation until the modification, This summer, the Criminal Code of Criminal Procedure in order to make possible the full retransmission of the debates in a room at the Palais des Congrès in Perpignan. “Our objective is to offer a public justice service of the best possible quality,” said Olivier LAURENT, president of the judicial court. Support and psychological support of similar civil parties will also be offered in Perpignan.
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Justice has put the means -120,000 euros were released for this trial, without counting the costs of compensation for civil parties and witnesses -proof that, beyond the search for the truth, A discussion on the possible responsibility of the driver of the coach, these three weeks of audience also have the objective of being therapeutic. A form of “restorative” justice which notably involves the concern for the court to answer all the questions posed by parents and young people bruised by this drama and to take stock of everything that was achieved during the survey.
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