a fatal accident that could have been avoided?

The Grand Paris express represents 200km of new metro lines around the capital. Already six workers have died on construction sites in three years. Maxime Wagner is the first of six dead. He worked in a tunnel boring machine which advances continuously underground to build the galleries. He regularly made videos to share his daily life. The work was well paid but difficult. Eight-hour rotations more than 20 meters underground.

The hearing lasted ten hours

The mother of Maxime’s first daughter is a civil party to the trial and denounces a series of malfunctions that allegedly took place that day. “That evening, the tunnel boring machine had a major jamming problem (…). They ordered him to look, to try to unclog these pipes. The pipe went straight into Maxime’s head”, she reports. According to the labor inspector, such a blow should have been avoided. On April 5, the hearing took place and lasted ten hours.