Judicial and administrative inquiries, an audit of the Orange network and services and soon a hearing of Stéphane Richard, the operator's boss, at the National Assembly.
This was announced this Sunday morning on France Info by the deputy Roland Lescure, spokesperson for LREM, more than three days after the gigantic breakdown of emergency numbers.
Failure of emergency numbers: "We will summon the CEO of Orange to the National Assembly within ten days," announces Roland Lescure.
"Obviously, Orange did not respect the specifications".
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"We are going to summon (him) to the National Assembly," he said.
I hope he will have answers for us.
(…) It's a matter of days, we are in the process of setting up the meeting, I think that within ten days we will have Stéphane Richard in front of the National Assembly.
And the deputy to assure that the Bourdon palace “must do its control work”, because “obviously, the specifications were not respected”.
"In-depth" internal investigation
The boss of Orange, in the turmoil, will have to explain himself while investigations are interested in at least five deaths that occurred during this incident, including that of a 28-month-old child in Vendée.
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On RTL on June 3, he then declared: "We are at the disposal of all the organizations which will carry them out (the investigations, Editor's note): justice perhaps, administrative investigations, we talked about the National Agency for security of information systems (Anssi)… We will of course collaborate on this without prejudice to the outcome of these investigations ”.
CEO Stéphane Richard had offered a "strong apology" to those affected and ruled out a cyberattack.
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The telephone operator Orange has launched an "in-depth" internal investigation, the conclusions of which are expected within seven days, the group announced on Friday.
Wednesday evening, the numbers 15 (Samu), 17 (police), 18 (firefighters) and 112 (single European number) were inaccessible or very difficult to access everywhere in France, forcing people to renew their call or use direct lines 10 figures put in place as a matter of urgency by the authorities.
Five suspicious deaths have been mentioned in Morbihan, Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Saône, Vendée, and on Reunion Island.
Among them, a 28 month old child.