Crash of the Caravelle Ajaccio

One more step towards the truth.

The public prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelli committed to providing an update on the case of the Caravelle Ajaccio-Nice crash on Thursday October 31 in the morning with Master Paul Sollacaro and his colleague Philippe Soussi. The two lawyers from the victims' families association chaired by the brothers Mathieu and Louis Paoli came away satisfied and optimistic from their interview.

“Quickly”

“The prosecutor confirmed to us that he was favorable to the recovery of the device as well as taking underwater photographs. He also told us that he wanted things to be done quickly. We are no longer in a distant temporality with distant perspectives”welcomes Master Sollacaro.

The principle of diving into the abyss of the Mediterranean and in-depth investigations is acquired. And we could soon move on to the more concrete step, of “the feasibility investigation that the prosecutor had already mentioned in his requisitions“, underlines the lawyer. Especially since he, a week after his meeting in the Élysée with Patrick Strzoda, the advisor ofEmmanuel Macron, had a “message important” to bring to the magistrate, namely that “the question of the financial cost was no longer one since the executive had given us a certain number of guarantees on the subject”.

However, lawyers and families are entering a new period of uncertainty regarding the technical and logistical possibility of carrying out this recovery operation. The streak could be short-lived. The project promises to be complex. But what will be undertaken has already been done in the past.

“ Extensive research was carried out on wrecks to determine the causes of the crash. We also have the reference of James Cameron who descended to 4,000 meters on the Titanic“, say the lawyers. In 2019, significant resources were also successfully mobilized to find, at a depth of 2,350 meters, Minerve, the submarine that disappeared off the coast of Toulonjust a few months before the Caravelle, on January 27, 1968 with 52 crew members.

Despite everything, the recovery or exploration of the plane has a unique character. For the first time, “under the aegis of an investigating judge, with the authorization of a public prosecutor, such an operation is carried out. Justice is providing the means necessary for the truth to come to light. The case takes a a turn of events which is of the order of the extraordinary”. Lawyers and families consider entering “in the final phase of the legal battle because we know that we are getting closer and closer to the truth“At the same time, the political fight is well underway, as proven.” the support of the Élysée and the Chancellery”. It will be won when the State will recognize that a missile hit the Caravelle.

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After 56 ans punctuated by silences, concealments of evidence, procedures, and pain, the brothers Mathieu and Louis Paoli whose parents Ange-Marie and Toussainte Paoli lost their lives in the crash of the vol Air France A1611 and all the victims' loved ones will finally be at peace.