This is a hearing “last chance” , which opens on the morning of Tuesday, March 3 at Rennes in the case of the “Bugaled-Breizh”. The families of five sailors killed in the sinking of the Breton trawler Channel contest the dismissal order issued by the court last year
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According to them, the ship was sunk by a submarine that would be caught in the nets. The meeting will be held in camera in the investigating chamber Rennes Appeals Court, which will put his or her decision. For Christian Bergot, a lawyer for relatives of the victims: “It’s make or break. If the dismissal is confirmed, the case is dead. “
The board said it would seek further investigation based on evidence from an expert, former submariner. The latter, Dominique Salles, was brought to justice before the dismissal, a “note very detailed” on the presence in the area of an American submarine, but this track has not been explored.
RÉCUSION APPLICATION AND EXPATRIATION
The Court of Appeal of Rennes on Friday rejected the request of families intended to challenge one of the judges. According to Dominique Tricaud, one of their lawyers, the judge who is to preside the hearing has already taken a position on this issue. End of 2013, it had rejected, leaving the decision to the investigating chamber, following a call for civil parties to the refusal of the investigating judges to order further investigations.
The assessment made at that opportunity “allows, at least, have legitimate doubts about the impartiality of the court over which he presides,” , then estimated M th Tricaud. But the Court of Appeal held that the magistrate had at no time “expressed a definite opinion on the matter in depth” and could preside over the hearing. Counsel for the owner of the Bugaled Breizh-Michel Kermarrec, asked meanwhile the expatriation appeal because according to him the “bias of the Rennes court” .
THE STATE OF ENGAGEMENT
Bugaled Breizh, registered in Guilvinec (Finistère) sank to the southwest of the England on January 15, 2004. For the relatives of the victims, reinforced by a first instruction in 2008 that the assumption of the submarine was “most serious” , the ship was accidentally hit by a submarine, while taking place in the area where he was fishing NATO maneuvers
Read selecting archives (edition subscribers). January 15, 2004: The sinking of the “Bugaled-Breizh”
The families of victims want the minimum that the state recognizes its responsibility in this drama. Closed on 3 July 2013, investigating the case, which is repeatedly struck by secret defense did not validate the thesis of the submarine, whether American or British.
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After writing to the President requesting a hearing, owner of the trawler, Michael Sweet, received a letter in recent weeks in which the head of state expressed sympathy, but returns to the Justice Minister, Christiane Taubira. As for the Minister of Defense, the Breton Jean-Yves Le Drian, he responded to the shipowner as “justice has not established a link between these maneuvers and sinking and no commitment of the State in the accident could not be demonstrated “.
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