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A bus accident in Puisseguin on October 23, 2015, killed 43 people. Six years later, justice pronounced a dismissal. The civil parties have decided to appeal the decision.
Six years after the accident in Puisseguin (Gironde), the emotion is still very strong among the families of the victims. 43 people had lost their lives during the tragedy. The pain is rekindled, Saturday, October 23, by the announcement of the dismissal. Justice recognizes the sole responsibility of the truck driver for speeding, but he died in the accident. He had lost control of his vehicle on a bend, and his trailer had hit the front of the retiree bus head-on. The two vehicles then caught fire.
Faced with the dismissal, the families are in the dark. “It is a human fault, (…) we knew it from the start, but the cause of the fire, we do not know”, deplores Michel Vigier, president of the collective of victims of Puisseguin. According to a report from the office of expertise and analysis dating from 2017, the fire was caused by the presence of an unapproved tank in the truck. The prosecution and the victims’ lawyers appealed against the decision. François Hollande, President of the Republic during the tragedy, visited the site at the end of the day to pay tribute to the victims.