Six years after the collapse of 63 and 65 rue d'Aubagne, which caused the death of eight people in Marseille, sixteen defendants will appear before their judges from this Thursday, November 7 and until December 18. Four, including two legal entities, were referred to court by the investigating judge, charged with involuntary homicide and involuntary injury. Alongside them, twelve other defendants, including two companies, were directly cited by the civil parties. They will have to answer for aggravated manslaughter and endangering and subjecting vulnerable people to conditions incompatible with human dignity.
Returned by the investigating judge
Richard Carta
A recognized expert specializing in old buildings, Richard Carta was commissioned to carry out a danger assessment on 65 rue d'Aubagne on October 18, 2018, two and a half weeks before the collapse. He is suspected of having committed “negligence“during this visit, failing to visit the cellar and not questioning the inhabitants.”An inexplicable lack of curiosity“, according to the investigation. That same evening, all tenants except those in an apartment were allowed to return home. He “the personal feeling of being the fuse of this file“, explains one of his lawyers, Me Cyril Gosset.
