The appeal trial of the driver of Millas’ bus will be held from October 7 to 25 in Aix-en-Provence. Six middle school students died in a school bus hit by a train on a level crossing in the Pyrénées-Orientales on December 14, 2017.
The dates of the appeal trial for the Millas tragedy have been communicated. It will be held from October 7 to 25 before the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal. Six schoolchildren aged 11 to 13 lost their lives in a terrible accident on December 14, 2017 on a level crossing in the Pyrénées-Orientales, 17 others were seriously injured. The bus carrying the students had been hit and cut in two by a train.
Nadine Oliveira, the 54-year-old driver of the bus, will be tried again for homicide and involuntary injuries. Will she be present at his trial? During the first instance hearing, the fifty-year-old was hospitalized after the first week. It continued in his absence to the great dismay of the civil parties: the parents of the victims and the survivors injured and forever marked by this tragedy.
At the end of three intense weeks, in a huge room intended for extraordinary trials, the driver was found guilty of “lack of inattention and imprudence” andhomicides and involuntary injuries, she had been sentenced to five years in prison, four of which were suspended. Despite visual testimony and expert opinions, she never admitted to having forced the level crossing.
Nadine Oliveira, 53, still hospitalized in a psychiatric ward in Marseille at the time of the deliberations, risked a maximum of five years in prison. The judgment was rendered in his absence. His lawyers immediately appealed.
