According to her lawyer, Nadine Oliveira was a victim of “tako-tsubo syndrome”, also called heart broken, which occurs after intense stress.
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Nadine Oliveira, the school bus driver, tried since Monday in Marseille for the fatal collision with a train in 2017 in Millas (Eastern Pyrenees)was transferred Saturday, September 24 to intensive care “after a heart attack“, indicates his lawyer Me Jean Codognés to France Bleu Roussillon.
According to him, Nadine Oliveira would have been a victim of “tako tsubo syndrome“, also called broken heart syndrome, which occurs after intense physical or psychological stress. The driver “must pass a third scanner on Monday at the Nord hospital in Marseille“, which compromises his presence in court for the second week of hearings.
Me Jean Codognés denounces this Saturday “the relentlessness“lawyers for the civil parties,”who engage in a competition to associate their name with forced confessions: it is torture worthy of the Middle Ages“. The lawyers for the civil parties deny engaging in “gratuitous harassment” on the defendant. “We ask him the questions we need to ask him“, indicated Thursday, September 22 in the evening Me Philippe Ayral. “We can understand that Mrs. Oliveira, after four days, is in difficulty to accept this idea“, he explained.
On Thursday evening, the hearing was suspended while the driver was again questioned about the accident. Pressed with questions by the lawyers for the civil parties, she broke down nervously. Taken by a crisis of sobs, she had been evacuated by the firefighters.
Nadine Oliveira, 53, has been on trial for a week in Marseille for homicide and involuntary injury. On December 14, 2017, the collision of his school bus with a TER in Millas claimed the lives of six college students, and seventeen others were injured.