In Comorian culture, reports Marie Oumar, there is a tendency to consider that “it is God who wills”.
Not this time.
The relatives of the 152 victims of the Yemenia crash never wanted to bring themselves to consider that the accident of this Airbus A310, which crashed in the Indian Ocean on June 30, 2009 off the Comoros, leaving only one survivor, was due "to fate".
The opening this Monday in Paris of the trial of the Yemenia Airways company, judged for four weeks for "involuntary homicides and injuries", marks in their eyes the culmination of thirteen years of combat.
“It was about time,” sighs Marie, who lost her mother Salima Ahamada, 57, and her younger brother Youssouf Mhoumadi, 17, as well as a cousin with her little boy and many friends.
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