The Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne) railway disaster left 7 dead and dozens injured in July 2013. The investigating judges in charge of investigating the disaster r
The Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne) railway disaster left 7 dead and dozens injured in July 2013.
Investigating judges in charge of the investigation into the Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne) train disaster, which left 7 dead and dozens injured in July 2013, have ordered charges against SNCF and the railway workers, public prosecutor Evry announced on Friday.
both were sent to the criminal court for murder and wounding. This 31-year-old railway worker was at the head of the brigade in charge of inspecting the route at the time of the derailment. It was he who conducted the last audit, eight days before the disaster. “The trial is planned for 2021,” the prosecutor said in a press release.
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Investigating judges, who followed the parquet requisitions, point to “mistakes” committed by SNCF Mobilities and SNCF Network (which was the successor to the réseau ferré de France, the track manager), “by choice or inaction that led to the lack of switches for recovery parts”.
Shock up to 137 km/h
On 12 July 2013, a City Paris-Limoges train derailed at Bretigny-sur-Orge station when a splint – a type of large clip that holds two rails together – rotated, causing the accident. The 137 km/h impact, which killed three train passengers, four among people waiting on the platform and injured dozens of others, is one of France’s worst rail disasters.
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The five-and-a-half-year investigation, which concluded in January 2019, led to a battle of expertise and contrast, with the challenge: determining whether the slippage was foreseeable.
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All those ordered by the judiciary concluded that the train derailed due to a maintained part of the track that disintegrated over time. SNCF, which authorized the second expertise, for its part, believes that the assembly in question was suddenly transferred due to a fault in the steel – the assumption that it is dédouanerait.
Updated date: June 13, 2020, 12:58 a.m
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