The Paris public prosecutor’s office announced, Thursday, April 27, to appeal the release judgment of the manufacturer Airbus and the airline Air France in the case of the Rio-Paris crash, which killed 228 people in June 2009.
On April 17, the criminal court had exonerated the two companies on the criminal level, arousing the “disgust” of the relatives of the victims. The court had ruled that, while “faults” had been committed, “no certain causal link” with the accident had “could not be demonstrated”.
By appealing this judgment, the public prosecutor’s office intends to give “full effect to the remedies provided by law”, he said in a press release.
