The Orpea group and two other defendants were acquitted this Monday for the death of three residents of a nursing home in 2015 in Biot. The court ruled that they did not have sufficient information on the level of risk at the time of the tragedy.
The former mayor of the town was given a one-year suspended prison sentence. On the evening of October 3, 2015, catastrophic storms transformed several rivers on the Côte d'Azur into torrents of water and mud.