The Valence prosecutor's office on Friday requested the opening of a judicial investigation against X for "homicide and unintentional injuries" in the case of the A7 tragedy, where five children were killed on Monday. 

The Valence prosecutor's office on Friday requested the opening of a judicial investigation against X for "homicide and involuntary injuries" after the serious car accident on the A7 which claimed the lives of five children on Monday evening in the Drôme, a- we learned from the prosecution.

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"We had this pattern in mind from the night of the accident"

"We had this pattern in mind from the evening of the accident. The investigation will now continue over time under the responsibility of an investigating judge," said the prosecutor of the Republic of Valencia Alex Perrin , confirming information from BFMTV . "We are still in the process of confirming the identity of the victims and the technical investigation. The expertise is not over," he added, specifying that the vital prognosis of "some" of the four victims hospitalized is "still engaged".

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Five dead children

Monday evening, a car accident mowed down nine members of a family from the suburbs of Lyon and the Paris region. All were on the A7 motorway aboard a minivan which caught fire before exiting the road then several barrels in a field near the town of Albon. In addition to the five children aged 3 to 14 who died, four other members of the family, including a 7-year-old child and two adults with a life-threatening prognosis, are currently still cared for in hospitals in Lyon.

In a preliminary report, the legal expert in mechanics concluded with the "breakage of the turbo", which caused a "runaway then the fire of the engine and even perhaps of the passenger compartment". Guest of Europe 1 Thursday, Nicolas Cellupica, lawyer of the family, hoped "that the responsibility of Renault will be called into question".