In 2009, his swollen face went around the world.
Bahia, 12, is the only survivor of the Yemenia Airways Airbus A310 crash which killed 152 people, including her mother and 65 other French people.
On the night of June 29 to 30, 2009, installed in a plane that takes him to a family wedding, Bahia Bakari feels turbulence followed by a kind of “electric shock”.
Then it's the black hole.
She wakes up immersed in rough seas off the Comoros where she should have landed.
Clinging for more than ten hours to a plane wreckage, the young girl is finally saved by fishermen and becomes a real miracle.
Thirteen years later, the trial for manslaughter and involuntary injury targeting the airline opened in Paris as the investigation revealed pilot errors which led to “the loss of control of the plane”.
A "relief" for the young woman, now 25, who finally wants to "turn the page".
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"It's complicated because inevitably, the trial plunged me back into it," explains Bahia Bakari.
If over time, certain memories fade, “the hours spent in the water” she will never be able to forget them, she says in a low voice.
She entrusted the story of her tragic accident to the Parisian.