Nina Pavan, edited by Alexandre Dalifard 10:35 a.m., November 18, 2022

After two months of trial, Nadine Oliveira, the driver of the bus which had been hit by a TER in Millas and which had caused the death of six schoolchildren, will know her judgment this Friday afternoon.

If the civil parties hope for a prison sentence, they are above all expecting an apology and an explanation from the 53-year-old woman.

Moment of truth for families?

On December 14, 2017, six college students died after a collision between a school bus and a TER.

But then, what really happened at the Millas level crossing in Occitania?

After two months of trial, the bus driver, Nadine Oliveira, will know her judgment this Friday afternoon.

"I saw the barrier open", constantly defends this 53-year-old woman placed in a psychiatric hospital.

Nadine Oliveira will not be at the hearing where the deliberation will take place at 2 p.m. at the Marseille court.

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“She will never apologize”

Fabien Bourgeonnier has been waiting for this judgment since the death of his son five years ago.

"It was the driver who ran the stop sign, she did not respect the 'give way' sign. It was she who accelerated as she approached the level crossing. Who else? The choice is not to have an ideal culprit, it is to know what happened. And even that, she was not able to tell us", laments the father of one of the victims .

For Stéphane Mathieu, dad of Ophelia, the prison sentence is essential but above all symbolic.

"This person is already in his prison and in his suffering. In terms of sentencing, it's not really what we expect the most. We would prefer that he come to apologize, that

she admits her responsibility for the accident.

But she will never say it, so yes, it's just symbolic," he explains.

Three years in prison is what the civil parties are hoping for, even if for them the length of the sentence does not matter when you lose a child or he will live his whole life injured.

For his part, the prosecutor requested five years in prison against the driver, the cancellation of his driving licenses and the prohibition to exercise a profession in contact with children.