Have the migrants struck by the TER near Saint-Jean-de-Luz been poisoned?
In any case, this is what the fourth man, survivor of the accident, who is still in hospital today assumes.
Monday, December 6, his lawyer at the Bordeaux bar, Gabriel Lassort, filed a complaint for "
involuntary homicides
" and "
unintentional injuries
", "
endangering the life of others
" and "
administration of harmful substances
".
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On October 12, around 5 a.m., four migrants were struck by a train around Ciboure and Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the Basque Country.
Three of them died, and the last one still suffers from multiple fractures in his lower body.
After the tragedy, the public prosecutor claimed that the group had taken the railway tracks to escape possible police checks.
According to the survivor interviewed shortly after, they had stopped to rest, fell asleep and did not see the train arriving.
However, the exile has recently returned to his version of the facts. According to his lawyer, his client, still in "
post-traumatic
"
shock,
does not remember the hours and minutes before the tragedy. But to take a distance and keep a cool head would have called into question his first version. According to Maître Gabriel Lassort, interviewed by
Le Figaro
, "
it seems very unlikely
", after such a difficult road from Algeria, that they "
found themselves at 5 am falling asleep on rails. railway, together, at the same time and in the same place
”.
Indeed, a few days after the accident, the police had reported a fifth man, also an Algerian migrant, at the scene of the accident. A police source told
Figaro
that the identity papers of this man had been found on one of the victims: he had been released a day earlier from Mont-de-Marsan prison and the
police.
had escorted him out of France after a measure of Obligation to leave French territory. Finally, for the lawyer and his client, this fifth man could have played a more important role than he was given in this story.
Two days after the tragedy, the Algerian migrant present at the time of the train accident was found by the police, questioned and released. According to Maître Gabriel Lassort, his client, the survivor of the accident, expresses several doubts about him: he and the other victims who died on the rails could have been "
poisoned
", "
perhaps with sleeping pills
". which could explain "
that this 5th man fled
". "
I am not saying that it is the case, but it is subject to question
", specifies the lawyer. His client also assumes that the man may have had a more important role than the others, that of smuggler.
Questions that remain unanswered for the moment. This is why "
we are requesting the opening of an investigation with these new elements,
" said the lawyer, adding that if the prosecutor did not follow up on these requests, he would file a complaint with the constitution of civil party, for that an examining magistrate can examine this file. “
What is important is that we had no place in this investigation, since we had a place of victim who had not been heard as a victim.
"Contacted by
Le Figaro
, the public prosecutor of the Judicial Court of Bayonne, Jérôme Bourrier, that an investigation had already been opened"
in search of the causes of death from the commission of the facts and entrusted to the Department of the judicial police of Bayonne ”.
"The complaint lodged will be joined to the procedure already in progress
", he concludes.