The audience resumed without the accused, Nadine Oliveira, hospitalized. By trying to understand her personality and why she continues to argue that the barriers of level crossing were open, against the advice of witnesses and experts.
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The absence of Nadine Oliveira at her trial settles as obvious. The driver of the school coach in which six children perished and seventeen others were injured during a collision with a Ter in the level of Millas (Pyrénées-Orientales) was hospitalized on Thursday, September 22, after having collapsed at the helm at the mention of the accident. Her trial did not stop because she signed a power giving mandate to her lawyers to represent it, which the law authorizes a free defendant tried in correctional. “Nadine Oliveira considers that the hearing can continue without her,” said the president of the court, Céline Ballérini.
Everyone seems to accommodate this absence. With the exception of a lawyer for civil parties who, Tuesday, September 27, deplored that no element was postponed to his state of health. “We do as if nothing had happened, we are in a kind of floating, deplores M e Julien Audier-soria. We continue without any certainty on his state of health.” The court does not have that of a hospital bulletin dating from his entry into the emergency room of the North Hospital of Marseille and what his lawyers report, but nothing else, no medical certificates.
The injured children, their parents and those of the children killed in the accident make up with this empty bench, shared between those who would not bear the referral of the trial and to have to start everything again in several months and those who have been waiting for years to express their anger in the presence of the one who is judged for having involuntarily led their children to death.
“Education without fuss”
It is therefore without her that a day during the court spoke of her. An “former education, without fuss”, sums up an investigator of personality, a woman who suffers the violence of a first partner, faces the difficulties of life as raising his daughter alone after the father left him ‘Announcement of her pregnancy, or taking care until the end of a father struck by cancer. A working life in patchwork: accountant in a Marseille maritime company, cleaning lady, maternal assistant, agent at the hospital in Manosque (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), to her driving license, In 2016, the discovery of a vocation for this passionate of big trucks and American “trucks” and who prefers male professional environments.
His life changed with the accident of December 14, 2017. The court reinforces all the tracks of the file, already closed during the investigation. A spirit that wanders when she has an appointment the same evening with a colleague with whom she exchanged naughty sms in the afternoon? “I was not at all troubled,” she replied to the investigating judge. A closed barrier forced in a form of suicide? No suicidal state, decide psychiatric experts.
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