A year’s suspended prison sentence for Cédric Javault, the leader of Cousins d’Amérique, organizer of stays abroad, and a 150,000 euro fine for his company: the Versailles Court of Appeal comes, in a judgment of January 28, to confirm the sentences and responsibilities, and find them guilty of manslaughter and manslaughter.
Léa Baldaccini and Orane Pozzo di Borgo, two teenage girls from Pennes-Mirabeau, were killed on August 22, 2009, in a mini-van accident across the United States. Five other youths were injured.
The attendant had fallen asleep at the wheel. All the testimonies attested to the great fatigue of the three facilitators.
Among the faults noted by the court: the weekly rest day which did not appear on the employment contracts, the absence of an educational project and the fact that the facilitators were not all holders of the Bafa. For the court, of which we were able to read the recitals, “the accumulation of faults committed in the organization of the stay“is indeed attributable to its leader, who”took part in a trek in Kenya” and “was then unreachable“.
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