It’s a never-ending story. That of Pierre Monin, this 21-year-old temporary worker killed on March 26, 2013 on the site of a subdivision in Mulsanne (Sarthe), crushed by a machine. While a trial was held in 2018, the driver of the machine will yet be tried again this Monday, March 29, 2021: he had not received the summons to the hearing two and a half years ago, and was therefore sentenced to ten months in prison in his absence. As the law allows, the man opposed this decision and obtained a new trial.
Six summons would never have arrived
The summons had been sent to the wrong address, the machine operator had learned his condemnation “in the press” explains his lawyer. Difficult for the family of Pierre Monin to understand. The trial had been postponed four times before it could finally be held, and then there was the civil hearing. “Each time, it never came, that one does not tell me that he was not in the current”, indignant the mother of the victim, Evelyne Huet-Monin.
The family of the young interim will therefore have to appear in court again this Monday, for the seventh time. “I would like to turn the page and be able to think of my son differently“, explains his mother wearily. And it is not over: the three other defendants sentenced in 2018 are not concerned by the procedure of this March 29, but they for their part contested the first judgment. There will therefore be also, one day, an appeal.
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