Six years almost to the day after the tragedy, the examining magistrate pronounces a dismissal.
A dismissal order was indeed issued by the examining magistrate in the investigation into the bus accident in Puisseguin (Gironde), which left 43 dead on October 23, 2015, we learned on Friday. to the Libourne prosecutor's office, which appealed.
"The investigating judge issued on October 14 an order rejecting acts and dismissal," prosecutor Olivier Kern told AFP.
“I appealed,” he adds.
This bus accident involving retired people on excursion, for which no indictment has ever been pronounced, is the deadliest to have occurred in France since 1982 and that of Beaune.
The survey relaunched in early 2021
The investigation in the Puisseguin case was closed in 2020 without any indictment, before the Libourne prosecutor relaunched the investigation in early 2021 by filing, on January 5, additional requisitions for requests for hearings and indicted before the examining magistrate in charge of the case.
He asked for the indictments of several companies and individuals for involuntary “homicides” and “injuries”, because of “failures” which “indirectly” contributed to the heavy toll of the tragedy.
"Beyond the expertises which clearly implicate the excessive speed of the driver, I believe that there are indirect causal responsibilities which can legitimize indictments", then justified the magistrate, who arrived in the fall of 2019 at Libourne.
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Puisseguin coach accident: the Libourne prosecutor's office relaunches the investigation
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