On November 14, 2015, a test train on the East European High-Speed Line (LGV) derailed in the town of Eckwersheim (Bas-Rhin). An accident that had eleven dead and 42 injured.
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After the accident of a test TGV which left eleven dead and 42 injured in November 2015 in Eckwersheim, in Bas-Rhin, the SNCF, two subsidiaries and three of their employees will be tried before the Paris Criminal Court, learned franceinfo from master Gérard Chemla, the lawyer for several families of victims, confirming information from AFP. The date of the trial is not yet known.
Two investigating judges from the Paris court ordered a lawsuit against the SNCF, two of its subsidiaries (Systra and SNCF Réseau) as well as against three employees of these subsidiaries for “involuntary injuries and homicides by clumsiness, imprudence, negligence or failure to a safety obligation”.
The three employees are “the person responsible for supervising the driving, the one who drove the motor car and a Systra employee, present to draw attention to the difficulties”explains master Gérard Chemla.
“We remain a little on our hunger”regrets however the lawyer of about fifty civil parties in this file, “because a certain number of natural persons had been placed under the status of assisted witness. These are the people who organized the trials in a rather calamitous way. We considered that these people could have been judged.”
“Objectively there is not much that can explain or justify such a long judicial investigationadds Gérard Chemla. We wasted a lot of time.” The Paris prosecutor’s office had requested a trial before the criminal court in this case on September 3, 2021, almost six years after this fatal accident.