the repatriation of the bodies opens "a way of appeasement", testifies the sister of a victim

Seven months ago, Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, which was supposed to fly from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to Nairobi in Kenya, crashed six minutes after it took off. The flight carrying the remains of the ten French victims of the crash of March 10 will arrive at 11 am on Saturday, October 19, at Orly airport. A ceremony will be held in the presence of families and the Secretary of State to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.

Virginie Fricaudet, the sister of one of the French victims, Xavier Fricaudet, 39, left for Addis Ababa, to accompany the return of his deceased brother. "I lost my brother Xavier, he was a school teacher in French high schools and he had just taken a job in Nairobi", she says.

This seven-month wait has been long for Virginie Fricaudet, who chairs a recently created association of victims' families. She explains it by the time needed to identify the victims that was made "by fingerprints where possible or by DNA cross-checks when the first route of identification was not possible".

Repatriation is "an absolutely fundamental step" in mourning, explains Virgine Fricaudet. "In a way, it's the final step in a long and painful process, and until then, it's a mourning that goes into misunderstanding and anger." Today, I think grief can to open on a path of appeasement, in any case a window … "

For the continuation, Virginie Fricaudet announces that the association of the families of the victims "is going to be a civil party in France, but today we have not done so, we will do it, certainly in the months that follow." Because "The first question that haunts families is: why did this plane fly?"

Numerous reports have pointed to a failure of the aircraft's anti-stall system, a Boeing 737 MAX already implicated in October 2018 when a plane of the same type from the Indonesian company Lion Air crashed in the Java Sea .

It is incomprehensible that this plane flew five months after a first crash on a device of the same type.Virginie Fricaudet, the sister of a victimat franceinfo

"Alerts had been sent, recalls Viriginie Fricaudet. Boeing was conscious of the problem. The pilots were worried. How is it that we have to face a new crash that makes 157 more victims? "

A judicial investigation for "manslaughter" has been entrusted in France to the cluster of collective accidents of the Paris court.