A stele in homage to the victims of the Air Algeria flight crash in Mali. - OLLO HIEN / AFP

Nearly six years after the crash of Air Algeria flight AH5017 in Mali, the Paris prosecutor's office is demanding a criminal trial for “involuntary killings” against the company Swiftair, accused of serious shortcomings in the training of its employees. pilots, AFP learned this Thursday from concordant sources.

The Spanish company was the owner of the aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, which it had rented from Air Algérie. On July 24, 2014, the aircraft on a Ouagadougou-Algiers flight crashed in northern Mali with 110 passengers on board, including 54 French, 23 Burkinabè, Lebanese, Algerians and six crew members, all Spanish.

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