(10 Oct 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris - 10 October 2022
1. Interior of Paris Tribunal
2. Interior of courtroom where trial is taking place
3. Sign reading (French) "Lawyers and Plaintiffs"
4. Interior of courtroom
5. President of the French victims' group, Entraide et Solidarité AF447, Daniele Lamy, in queue to enter courtroom
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Daniele Lamy, President of the Entraide et Solidarité AF447 victims' group:
"This will allow the family to express themselves, to express their suffering over thirteen years. We have also been awaiting it (the trial) with some anxiety, we are going to have to unfortunately relive particularly painful moments and we await it (the trial) with fragility because both defendants are the two biggest companies in the French aeronautic industry and it is going to be indeed a bit difficult for them to admit their responsibility, but we are waiting for them to admit it and we are waiting for the French judicial system to recognise it, in what I've told you, is to be an exemplary trial."
7. Various of lawyers and plaintiffs entering courtroom with French police standing by
8. Mid of Philippe Linguet, who lost his brother Pascal in the crash, talking
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Linguet, brother of AF447 victim:
"We want Air France and Airbus to be convicted because we think they made a lot of failures. Airbus, with underestimating the dangerousness of the anemometric probes (pitot tubes) and Air France with a lack of training for their pilots."
10. Close of Entraide et Solidarité AF447 badge
11. Linguet being interviewed
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippe Linguet, brother of AF447 victim:
"It is their image, it's their reputation (referring to Airbus and Air France). We want to have this trial conclusion written in the newspapers everywhere in the world. Air France and Airbus did bad things, (that) they are convicted. Even if nobody goes to jail. It's not a problem."
13. Various of victim's family member with sign (French) "French justice thirteen years too late"
14. Victims' families checking in at court
15. SOUNDBITE (German) Dr Bernd Gans, President of the German victims' group, HIOP-447 and 4U9525, who lost his daughter in the crash:
"It's very important that we made it to the trial stage. Of course, we thank our lawyers who after so many attempts managed to bring about a trial after all. Because you can imagine, thirteen years of waiting, it is almost inhuman."
16. Family member of victims checking in at the court
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Bernd Gans, President of the German victims' group, HIOP-447 and 4U9525, who lost his daughter in the crash:
"I would like to see that we get clearness (clarity) about the difficulties the pilots had and the reasons why they had them."
18. Various arrival of Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury
19. Arrival of Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer for German victims' families
20. SOUNDBITE (French) Thibault de Montbrial, Lawyer for German victims' families:
"All the families have already been compensated by a mechanism within the Montreal Convention. This occurred in the first two years. That's not the issue today. This issue today, for a company like Airbus, is not the level of the fine, it's the principle of a conviction. If Airbus is convicted today for an error that led to the crash of the plane, the cost is far bigger, it's an immaterial cost, far superior to 225,000 euros ($219,000)."
21. Various exteriors of Paris Tribunal building
STORYLINE:
They fought for more than a decade to see the case come to trial.
===========================================================
Find out more about AP Archive: [ Ссылка ]
Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
Facebook: [ Ссылка ]
Instagram: [ Ссылка ]
You can license this story through AP Archive: [ Ссылка ]
