In six months, we will commemorate the tenth years of the Puisseguin accident. This morning of October 23, 2015, a collision between a bus and a semi-trailer caused the death of 43 people and seriously injured eight others. For more than nine years, the victims and their relatives have been waiting in the hope of a trial, “an advance”.
They alternate the phases of anger as in 2021 during the announcement of a dismissal, then of hope as since March 2023 and the reopening of the file by the Bordeaux Court of Appeal. From then on, hearings and investigations have taken up. new responsibilities are explored. It is within the framework of the revival of this procedure that the Attorney general of the Court of Appeal invited the civil parties Thursday, April 17, at 8:30 am. On the agenda: examination of the return of the supplement of information concerning the parties under investigation and the assisted witnesses.
Several scenarios
This new judicial meeting will mainly focus on the “Additional Tank” part, which had been added to the truck and has helped to promote the destructive fire. She will therefore mainly concern the fate of Michel Aleixand, the boss of the truck company who was led by his son Cyril, who died in the collision with his own 3-year-old son, the Sarl Aleixandre, the garage owner Pierre-Henri Corbin who proceeded to the installation of the said reservoir, as well as his companies SAS CRETOT OUES and SASU CRETOT Rental.
The outcome of this hearing, held behind closed doors, will only be known in a few months. Several scenarios are possible: a general dismissal, a referral (that is to say a trial) before the criminal court of all the parties indicted, a partial referral in correctional (for example only the garage) or even a request for an additional information. The collective of Victims of Puisseguin also hopes for indictments of people identified at Daimler, the manufacturer of the CAR. The hope of a trial remains. In the meantime, their continuous fight to develop the safety of coaches and the standards of the materials used, deemed too flammable.
