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Two days after Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), the SNCF is in turn indicted Thursday for involuntary homicide and injuries by judges investigating the train accident Bretigny. Both indictments come one year and two months after the derailment of a train Paris-Limoges which killed seven people and wounded dozens on July 12 2013 It responds publication in early July, a report by forensic experts who had concluded that switching from one plate, a kind of metal clip connecting two rails, was the cause of the accident. The experts had also severely challenged the maintenance rules. The report said “numerous deficiencies” were identified in the tracking and tracing operations at the site of Bretigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), located 40 km south of Paris. From the opening statement by the prosecutor in Evry, RFF, which manages the infrastructure Rail and SNCF, which operates foresaw these indictments and the representatives of the two companies should not call. “I have always said that these indictments are important because they allow us to have access to the file,” the head of the SNCF, Guillaume Pepy. “This access is an important issue in our understanding of the disaster., We do not know what the parts that have been seized are,” he adds. Tuesday, following his call for judges, counsel for RFF, Me Antonin Levy, however, had expressed “incomprehension” management over the “reasons Legal justifying the indictment. ” This new step in the investigation of the accident was also expected by the victims and their families. “This will allow to get into an adversarial” rejoices Stephane Gicquel, secretary general of the Fenvac, the National Federation of the victims of bombings and mass accidents. “It will be interesting to hear the responses of the SNCF and RFF.” It is now both companies to ask for a second opinion against if they disagree with the conclusions of experts. On 12 July 2013, 385 people were aboard the train Intercity No. 3657 when it derailed at 137 km / h . Six people died at the scene and a seventh victim died sixteen days later. Since the tragedy, RFF and SNCF, who will meet in January in a public group, claimed to have placed railway safety as their top priorities. The indictment of the corporations is common after accidents involving vehicles. In the collision between a school bus and a TER Allinges (Haute-Savoie) who had killed seven schoolboys aged 11-13 years in 2008, the two companies were also indicted. They were sentenced to fines for involuntary homicide and injuries last year. “Go into adversarial”
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