SNCF engineer buried in Massy: the investigation reclassified as manslaughter against X

Twist in the case of the SNCF Réseau engineer buried on a construction site in Essonne this summer.

The investigations into the death of Guibert Rigah, a 54-year-old executive, following a landslide in Massy in July, were reclassified as an investigation for “manslaughter against X”, the Evry prosecutor's office said on Thursday. Courcouronnes to AFP.

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The investigation had initially been opened for "research of the causes of death".

This father, who had gone to the site on Sunday July 25 for "a simple inspection visit", had fallen into a drilling well of more than 30 meters.

The goal of the work was to renew the Chartres (for the RER B) and Gallardon (for the RER C) bridges, located side by side.

The body was found five days after the accident

On August 30, the investigation was reclassified as "manslaughter against X" and "criminal breaches of labor law".

A requalification motivated by initial feedback from expertise, specifies a legal source.

The search for the engineer's body had been tedious.

He was found five days after the accident.

The excavations had been complicated by the harsh environment of the accident site.

Victim of a "subsidence of the ground during a tour of the site in progress", the man was an executive and operations pilot in the direction of the modernization of the network.