A young man with his head covered with a felt hat, another all smiles with his face framed by dreadlocks, a young woman posing in a summer dress against a background of sunflowers, another with her arms open in front of the ocean… In the In ten giant screens in the Marseille criminal court room reserved for extraordinary trials, photographs of the victims of the collapse of the buildings on Rue Aubagne accompany, since Friday, November 15, the testimonies of their loved ones dear ones. The court set aside six days to discuss the life stories of the eight victims and hear from a large number of the approximately 90 civil parties.
“This is good”says Léo Lavieille as the president of the court, Pascal Gand, leafs through the photographs of his father Fabien Lavieille, buried at the age of 54 under the rubble of 65 rue d’Aubagne. T-shirt of the group Massilia Sound System of which he was a fan, jacket and raised fist… the image sums up his father “a flayed soul, too kind and a great dreamer”.
“I wasn’t a fan of my dad living here, it smelled like urine in the hallway, but he was always in mode, it didn’t matter. » Léo Lavieille reviews the struggles of a difficult existence marked by the death of his mother and the illness of his father, whose lungs had been damaged by asbestos when he worked in construction. But take the photo shown as a witness: “He always had a smile, despite everything that happened. »
Smile, “Sorriso” in Italian, was the nickname of Simona Carpignano, 30, whose Taranto parents, Domenico and Maria, evoke a young humanist activist, in her home in Apulia where she taught Italian to immigrants who survived a dangerous crossing and in Marseille where his knowledge of Arabic learned at the Sorbonne allowed him to make translations for those who needed them. “She was betrayed in everything she loved, respect for human dignity. Everything she believed in turned against her.”laments his mother, who teaches security concepts at the Italian Ministry of Defense.
“Why did Civil Defense say not to worry? »he laments as the president of the court reads Simona’s worried messages to her owner. “I’m afraid the building is leaning.”alerted the young woman on October 16, 2018. Informed of the state of the building, her parents had sent her a transfer so that she could leave as soon as possible and immediately settle somewhere else. “If we had known that there had been an evacuation of the building [le 18 octobre durant quelques heures]We would have come to pull her by the hair to get her out. »
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