Our series on the Brétigny disaster
On Friday July 12, 2013, at 5.11 p.m., Intercités train 3657 Paris-Limoges derailed at Brétigny-sur-Orge station (Essonne), with 385 passengers on board.
Travelers who were on the RER C platform are broke.
Seven people lose their lives, more than 400 others are injured.
After a judicial investigation of nearly seven years, the hour of the trial has arrived.
Back in 5 episodes on one of the worst rail disasters in France in the last twenty years.
The immense expectation of the victims
One of the first police officers on the scene says
The memory of a trauma in Brétigny
An association in support of victims (to be published on Saturday April 23)
An extraordinary trial (to be published on Sunday April 24)
The years have passed but, in Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), the memory of the train disaster is still present.
If the exact date, July 12, 2013, has sometimes been forgotten, the inhabitants remember precisely what they were doing that day, at 5:11 p.m.
The time at which the Intercités 3657 Paris-Limoges train, which carries 385 passengers on board, arrives at the station at 137 km / h and derails, mowing down passengers on the RER C platform.
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