The mayor of Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) Gilles Bourdouleix will appear in February 2025 before the Angers criminal court for injuries and manslaughter after the death of a young woman and her little brother during the fireworks on the 14 July 2022, the Angers prosecutor’s office announced on Wednesday.
The main pyrotechnician and his employer the HTP company, as well as the Cholet Evènement association will be judged at the same time as Gilles Bourdouleix and for the same facts, during a trial which will be held from February 24 to 28, according to a press release. press.
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A security zone not respected
On the evening of the tragedy, a seven-year-old boy and his 24-year-old sister were killed by several projectiles falling in the middle of a group of spectators a few dozen meters from the shooting range, in a Cholet park normally closed to the public. . Their mother, father and the young woman’s companion were seriously injured. Twelve other people suffered minor injuries. An investigation into homicide and unintentional injuries was opened following this tragedy.
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The mayor of Cholet is accused of “having failed in his obligations by delegating the organization of the fireworks to an association, by neglecting to examine security issues with the organizers. […] and by not imposing the installation of security barriers” in order to ensure “respect for the security zone within which no public should be present”, specified the public prosecutor of Angers Éric Bouillard, in his press release.
The mayor of Cholet indicted in another case
The pyrotechnician and his employer are being prosecuted for “having set off a fireworks display while people were in an area closed to the public and for having used unsuitable or poor equipment”. Finally, the Cholet Evènement association is targeted for “not having put in place a system aimed at ensuring respect for the security zone inside which no public should be present and for not having attracted sufficient “attention of the mayor of Cholet on the prerogatives to be implemented”, indicates the magistrate.
Mayor of Cholet since 1995, Gilles Bourdouleix is indicted in another case for “breach of trust” and “concealment of abuse of corporate property” following suspicious money transfers involving two associations and two real estate companies (SCI). Allied to the RN during the legislative elections last June, he was beaten by the outgoing Macronist deputy.
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