Visitors are immersed in futuristic worlds Heading up the franchise, Arnaud Pierru, co-founder of board game publishers Grosso Modo Editions and Super Meeple shares his enthusiasm for this new adventure " After working for years in board game publishing where I had the opportunity to edit classics such as TIKAL and NOSFERATU I discovered EVA and was immediately won over by this concept immersion and the pleasure of team play," he explains He chose to set up his establishment in Brétigny-sur-Orge a strategic location to reach a wide audience especially young sports enthusiasts in the neighborhood TheEVA concept is based on cutting-edge technology developed in partnership with HTC Players are equipped with virtual reality headsets andconnected weapons evolving in a 500 m² arena where their movements are fully reproduced in the game with the ambition of joining the Virtual Olympics in 2025 A not-to-be-missed experience for fans of thrills and innovation This page may contain AI-assisted elements, more information here Refer your establishment, click herePromote your event, click here Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Around 40 activists protested a proposed Amazon Web Services data center in Brétigny-sur-Orge this week and local political candidates pushed back on the project The group criticized the data center's potential water use Feature: How to work with communities and avoid data center NIMBYism "We are not against data centers, we have the Internet, we are living with the times," Brétigny Transition spokesperson Hélène Bureau told Le Parisien "But they don't have to be done randomly The concern here is that it will tap into the water table because these centers consume a lot of water And right next door is the l'Envol farm which produces vegetables that are sold to the locals the water table is already in high demand.” The new data center will require two high voltage lines which protesters claim AWS will only pay for half of They also do not like the data center's onsite diesel storage in case of issues with the grid The site is already home to an Amazon logistics warehouse for its eponymous eCommerce website and the company previously planned to build a second warehouse at the site But Amazon decided to build a data center on the land instead “Discussions are still ongoing," Mayor Nicolas Méary said in a statement "I asked AWS a number of questions on the environmental impact and elements of contribution to the territory When Amazon first filed with the Essonne prefecture for a permit under French environmental protection rules for the data center earlier this year "Amazon has not bothered to consult us on its data center project," the mayor said at the time Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. 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Read our WAMU Privacy Notice This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again At least six people have died and over a hundred were injured when a packed French intercity train derailed and crashed at high speed into a station outside Paris The French railway company SNCF said the train travelling from Paris to Limoges was carrying 385 passengers when it derailed at 5.15pm on Friday at Brétigny-sur-Orge in Essonne Four of the train's seven carriages ploughed into a crowded platform at rush hour on one of the busiest days of the year for holiday getaways Security services have been working on the wreckage where passengers are believed to be trapped in mangled carriages said six people were killed and 22 were seriously injured including one who was in a critical condition The prefect's office in Essonne said a total of 180 people were injured Hollande said three inquiries had been launched into what caused the derailment the owner of a cafe beside the busy suburban station told iTele: "The train approached very He added that the passengers he had seen were very shocked and talking of serious injuries a passenger travelling in one of the carriages that did not derail said the passengers in his unaffected carriage were shaken and "did not know what was going on" who saw the derailment from the window of a different RERC local suburban train told Le Parisien website: "I heard a massive noise and saw a cloud of sand that covered everything Then the dust lifted … We saw the first injured Lots of train passengers were blocked under the train." He had heard of very bad injuries and said a lot of passengers on his train were crying One of the wounded passengers asked observers not to film the accident Rescue workers assist victims at the scene of the derailment. Photograph: Etienne Laurent/EPASeveral witnesses described the train as appearing to "split in two". One witness told Europe 1 radio of a scene of chaos and panic at the station where he said the derailed carriages were "crushed" told Le Parisien: "Three carriages were tangled up one behind the other" He added: "I have no idea of the number of casualties I've just been told it risks being very heavy There are people injured by ballast." He said "Everyone was running in all directions Hospitals in Paris have been on emergency alert to treat serious injuries As hundreds of emergency staff worked on the wreckage the cause of the derailment has not yet become fully clear The train had left Paris-Austerlitz station at 4.53pm and was scheduled to pass through Brétigny station at high speed without stopping on its way to Limoges at 8.05pm But carriages three and four derailed and careered into the train platform By 2022-11-03T10:07:00+00:00 FRANCE: A court in Evry has found national operator SNCF guilty of homicide and involuntary injury following the derailment on July 12 2013 of a Paris Austerlitz – Limoges locomotive-hauled Intercités service at Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern Paris suburbs The train was passing through Brétigny station when the rear four of seven Corail coaches derailed at 137 km/h killing seven people and injuring or traumatising 428 others some of whom were waiting on the station’s platforms the court issued SNCF with a €300 000 penalty but acquitted local maintenance inspector Laurent Waton who had made the last inspection of the trackwork eight days before the accident which in 2013 was functioning as Réseau Ferré de France At the end of a trial that lasted from April 25 to June 17 this year the public prosecutor had stated that SNCF had ‘created the context at the origin of the accident’ by ‘a failure in the maintenance chain’ The prosecutor had asked for a maximum penalty of €450 000 saying that the ‘whole concept of public service has collapsed’ and accusing SNCF of being ‘a company in denial’ The derailment was caused by a loose fishplate obstructing the flangeway of an oblique crossing forming part of a double slip about 200 m north of the station The fishplate had pivoted as a result of a crack spreading in the crossing which had first been detected in 2008 The crack should have been monitored annually by SNCF and ‘this negligence in monitoring the crossing is definitely linked to the derailment’ If SNCF had correctly checked the crossing it would have noted its damaged condition and proceeded to replace it The court also found that SNCF had inadequate documentary checks in place to monitor the work carried out by its maintenance staff SNCF said that the accident was attributable to an undetectable defect in the steel used in the crossing FRANCE: On January 10 land transport accident investigation bureau BEA-TT published its interim report on the derailment which had taken place on July 12 2013 at Brétigny-sur-Orge The last four cars of an SNCF Paris - Limoges inter-city service had left the track when entering the station from the north FRANCE: National railway operator SNCF and infrastructure manager RFF confirmed on July 14 that a loose fishplate was believed to have triggered the derailment of a Paris - Limoges Intercité express at Brétigny-sur-Orge on July 12 which killed six people and injured a further 62 The seven-coach loco-hauled train which .. Site powered by Webvision Cloud The entrance of Amazon's logistics center in Bretigny-sur-Orge Amazon will suspend all distribution operations in its six warehouses in France until at least April 20, according to an internal document sent to French labor unions The decision came after a French court ruled on Tuesday that the company must limit deliveries to essential goods while it conducts a thorough assessment of the coronavirus contagion risk at its warehouses The court gave the French subsidiary of the U.S online retail giant 24 hours to restrict shipments to essential goods such as food or medical supplies or face a fine of $1.1 million for each day of non-compliance The company decided to temporarily halt operations A lawsuit resulted from a complaint filed last month by a French group of labor unions which raised concerns about workers' health and safety since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in France Unions accuse Amazon of overcrowding and lacking health standards at its distribution sites French media reported that according to Laurent Degousée a representative from the labor union that filed the complaint several employees from an Amazon warehouse site south of Paris have tested positive for COVID-19 Amazon claimed it has adhered to recommended health guidelines and had established regular temperature checks for workers in France It also said it had made face masks and sanitizer gel available given the hard evidence brought forward regarding security measures put in place to protect our employees," Amazon said in a statement The court said Amazon had not done enough to guarantee safe distances between employees It also said the company had not adequately assessed the risk associated with employees passing packages to one another Amazon currently employs approximately 10,000 people at its French warehouses Amazon has one month to revise its health and safety protocols with employee representatives Labor unions told Bloomberg News that Amazon had informed employees it will use a government labor scheme to furlough employees "Employees are going on partial unemployment but paid 100% a representative from the CFDT labor union Tuesday marked four weeks of nationwide confinement and President Emmanuel Macron announced the same day that the strict measures will continue until May 11 This week's temporary Amazon closure will likely be a blow to households that rely on its delivery service since most businesses across the country are closed In the U.S., where the company has also come under scrutiny for its health and safety measures, Amazon said earlier this week it would hire 75,000 more workers to keep up with the surge in demand for deliveries Become an NPR sponsor France — A powerful crane on Saturday lifted the carcass of the most damaged of four train cars that derailed killing six people and injuring nearly 200 south of Paris in what investigators believe may have been a case of equipment failure on a line some claim is neglected Authorities had feared more victims would be found under the wreckage but none was discovered “We are now assured that there are no more victims,” Fuzeau said after the start of the delicate operation by the 700-ton crane The machine is to remove the cars damaged from the tracks at the small Bretigny-Sur-Orge station four cars slid off the tracks there as the train sped through town which was not a stop on its journey to central France Human error has been ruled out by France’s transport minister and the focus of the investigation is on a detached piece of metal in a switching joint on the tracks has already taken blame for Friday evening’s crash which occurred at the start of a busy holiday weekend “The SNCF considers itself responsible,” rail company chief Guillaume Pepy said “It is responsible for the lives of its clients.” was traveling below the speed limit at 137 kph (85 mph) when it derailed skidded and slammed into the station platform in the small town outside the capital It was 20 minutes into a scheduled three-hour trip to Limoges in central France towered over the small buildings that surround the railway station street lamps and other urban furnishings to make place for the larger crane outside the station The operation is an “extraordinarily difficult technique given that we are in a train station,” Pepy said we don’t know how long it could take.” He said the operation could last through Sunday stressing the crane’s operators will be careful and slow in lifting the cars It was not immediately clear whether the damaged cars would be lifted over buildings onto trucks as authorities had indicated — or whether the debris would be taken away by rail There was no immediate sign that the damaged car that was lifted to check for victims had left the tracks said investigators found that a 22-pound piece of metal he compared to a staple between two rails in a switching system which guides trains from one track to another seems to have “detached itself from the rails lifted and constituted the initial cause of the derailment.” Investigators were looking into how this happened since another train had traveled safely through the station about 30 minutes before they were trying to determine why the train’s third car was the first to derail said the metal piece “moved into the center of the switch and in this position it prevented the normal passage of the train’s wheels and it may have caused the derailment.” Although for now it appears track failure was the cause of the crash Pepy added: “There can be no (definitive) answer in a few minutes in a few days.” He also said that all of the approximately 5,000 metal pieces on switching systems around France will be checked The train was about 12 miles into its 250-mile journey to Limoges Passengers and officials in train stations throughout France held a minute of silence at noon to commemorate the accident Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to take trains this weekend to the coast and mountains and to see family Summer weekends are always busy on France’s extensive rail network but this one is typically one of the busiest because of Bastille Day Nearly 200 people had initially been treated for injuries The crash was the country’s deadliest in years but Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier said it could have been worse and praised the driver who sent out an alert quickly Cuvillier acknowledged that there was some criticism that France hasn’t invested enough in maintaining infrastructure Willy Colin of the Rail Users Association was among those who claimed the Paris-Limoges inter-city line was neglected in favor of more high-profile fast-train lines He said on BFM-TV that trains on the line were among the oldest The transport minister said no link can immediately be made between the state of the line and the accident “For the moment we have no information that allows us to confirm that the dilapidation of the network was the cause of this derailment,” he said on French television At least 6 dead in Paris train crashAssociated PressBRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE France (AP) — France's Interior Ministry has lowered the death toll in a train derailment outside Paris to six and says nine people have been gravely injured crashed into Bretigny-sur-Orge station Friday on the eve of a major holiday weekend The interior minister previously said seven people had been killed The crash is the deadliest in France in years and President Francois Hollande abandoned plans in the capital to visit the scene crushing part of the metallic roof over the platform Images from the scene shown on French television showed gnarled metal and shards on the platform and debris from the crash clogging the stairwell leading beneath the platform Interior Minister Manuel Valls said at least seven people are believed dead and several dozen injured but added that the casualty toll is "in constant evolution." The SNCF said the train was carrying about 385 passengers when it derailed Friday evening at 5:15 p.m EDT) and crashed into the station at Bretigny-sur-Orge The train was headed from Paris to Limoges a 250-mile journey and was about 20 minutes into what would have been a three-hour journey The accident came as France is preparing to celebrate its most important national holiday and as masses of vacationers are heading out of Paris and other big cities to see family or on summer vacation All trains from Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz were suspended after the accident A passenger speaking on France's BFM television said the train was going at a normal speed and wasn't meant to stop at Bretigny-sur-Orge He described children unattended in the chaotic aftermath He said there are swarms of emergency workers at the scene   This newscast is updated weekdays at 6am AWS returning to plans first mooted in 2019 in Essonne Amazon is reportedly planning to build a data center in Brétigny-sur-Orge Amazon has been considering building a data center on the unused land since 2019 As the first step towards constructing a data center on the site AWS has now filed with the Essonne prefecture for a permit under French environmental protection rules was previously a French airbase that was seized by the Germans during their occupation of France in WWII After being liberated by American soldiers in 1944 Base 217 served as a NATO site until 2012 when the site was decommissioned from military use Amazon bought the land from the Essonne agglomeration in 2016 It planned to build two logistics warehouses and Amazon has reportedly since withdrawn its building permit The new data center would form part of the AWS EU Paris region Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Faulty tracks may have caused the highspeed train crash in France which left at least six people dead More than a hundred people were injured when the intercity train derailed and crashed into a station 20km south of Paris. Railway company SNCF said initial findings suggested that a piece of metal connecting two rails had become detached. SNCF official Pierre Izard said: "It moved into the centre of the switch and in this position it prevented the normal passage of the train's wheels and it may have caused the derailment." A minute's of silence was held at noon on Saturday in memory of those killed in the accident. Earlier, French transport minister Frederic Cuvillier had said human error was not to blame. He told RTL radio: "Fortunately, the driver of the locomotive had absolutely extraordinary reflexes in that he sounded the alarm immediately, preventing a collision with another train coming in the opposite direction and which would have hit the derailing carriages within seconds." The train, travelling from Paris to Limoges at 85mph, was carrying 385 passengers when it crashed at 5.15pm on Friday at Brétigny-sur-Orge in Essonne. Four of the train's seven carriages ploughed into a crowded platform at rush hour on one of the busiest days of the year for holiday getaways. Security services have been working on the wreckage where passengers are believed to be trapped in mangled carriages, which were lying on their side. The French president François Hollande, visiting the scene, said six people were killed and 22 were seriously injured, including one who was in a critical condition. The prefect's office in Essonne said a total of 180 people were injured. Hollande said three inquiries had been launched into what caused the derailment. Derailed train at Brétigny-sur-Orge. Transport minister Frederic Cuvillier has said human error was not to blame. Photograph: Infosart/Demotix/CorbisAt the scene, Guillaume Pepy, head of SNCF, in tears in front of the TV cameras, talked of a "rail catastrophe". "The SNCF considers itself responsible," he said later. "It is responsible for the lives of its clients." The mayor of Brétigny, Bernard Decaux, told Le Parisien: "Three carriages were tangled up one behind the other", with a fourth lying on its side. He added: "Everyone was running in all directions. It was panic. It was an apocalyptic sight." Hospitals in Paris have been on emergency alert to treat serious injuries, including from electrocution. As hundreds of emergency staff worked on the wreckage, the cause of the derailment has not yet become fully clear. El Mehdi Bazgua, 19, who saw the derailment from the window of a different RERC local suburban train, told Le Parisien website: "I heard a massive noise and saw a cloud of sand that covered everything. I saw stones and wires on the ground. Then the dust lifted … We saw the first injured. I saw a man with an open head wound. Lots of people were cut. Lots of train passengers were blocked under the train." Michael Lesaunier, the owner of a cafe beside the busy suburban station told iTele: "The train approached very, very fast, knocking out everything in its path. It was rush hour, the platform was full." 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LOG IN You’ve reached your limit of content for the month Register for free now Like a puzzle piece, the French studio Vallet de Martinis Architectes has assembled an educational complex that is part of a large-scale operation to enhance the agro-industrial land on which it is located on a plot in the municipality of Brétigny-sur-Orge surrounded by several gardens and a network of houses and collective housing operations typical of the area surrounding the outskirts of Paris The project consists of a school group that includes in its programme a nursery school a catering centre and a leisure centre without accommodation as an institutional statement and benefiting from very good urban visibility is governed as an intimate building with essential uses whose identification goes unnoticed resulting in being identifiable as a public institution Developed from a series of different volumes with three distinct programmatic entities, the educational centre developed by Vallet de Martinis Architectes that the “Claudie Haigneré” School Group is understood as a whole and despite its large surface area manages to create a unique universe in which children can feel a sense of belonging in the place and make it their own their thickness and dimensioning in such a way that it develops perspectives towards the surrounding landscape serving as a transition between the city and the intimacy of the school It also creates welcoming spaces based on a structural framework laid out by the different materials that compose it which allow visitors to benefit from easy and optimal circulation with a large presence of plants and atmospheres of tranquility achieved thanks to the correct treatment of light and colour inside "Claudie Haigneré" School Group by Vallet de Martinis Architectes Project description by Vallet de Martinis Architectes The school group of the ZAC Clause Bois Badeau is part of a vast operation to enhance the agro-industrial wasteland located to the west of the Brétigny-sur-Orge train station whose first residents began to settle in 2012 a catering center and a leisure center without accommodation (ALSH) it fits into a plot surrounded by the Joncs Marins a network of small houses and some collective housing operations The school group benefits from very good urban visibility Its three main facades are oriented towards significant spaces: · The forecourt overlooks Avenue Jacqueline de Romilly and is the main entrance to the building The structural framework is highlighted on this main façade as well as on Rue des Cendrennes or on Jardin de Traverse in order to give an overall homogeneity to the school group · The south of the plot overlooks Jardin de Traverse designated as the "schoolchildren's path" of the urban project This pedestrian and cycle path irrigates the entire district in depth It offers the possibility of hosting children's games educational gardens or even vegetable gardens · To the north of the plot is Rue des Cendrennes which marks the boundary between the urbanization of the Orge valley and Joncs Marins This small street constitutes the secondary access to the school group: staff parking delivery area and access to the multipurpose room positioned at the corner of Avenue de Romilly the elementary courtyard is oriented towards the forest and the vast landscape Institutional affirmation and the intimacy of uses are essential to the identification of the project this place is identifiable as a public institution The work done on the volumes and facades highlights the school group within a fabric mainly composed of individual houses and collective housing The entrances are mainly defined on the Avenue de Romilly which is directly linked to the forecourt an interface between the city and the school the entrances are distinguishable by a play of hollows and a concrete materiality Discretion is also required in a school group their thickness and dimensioning as well as the spacing of the wooden posts on the facade make it a discreet space for its users It is not possible to clearly distinguish the uses linked to the school group from the outside The interior spaces are mainly turned inwards allowing the classrooms to be at a distance from direct contact with the public space Transversalities are created on the site through the layout of voids (courtyards) and solids (learning and activity spaces) The layout of the courtyards provides transversalities towards the built environment or nature The cloister model for the nursery school benefits from transversalities towards the built environment while the “L” model for the elementary school benefits from transversalities towards nature These transversalities provide children with peaceful spaces and great ease of orientation within the schools The project thus finds its balance between the centrality of the courtyard characteristic of the institution’s introversion The project also aims to develop perspectives towards the surrounding landscape The Jardin de Traverse and the Joncs Marins are the two privileged views of the building Since children spend more time in the classrooms than in the courtyard the exercise rooms of the two schools are turned towards the outside: the Jardin de Traverse for the nursery school; the Sea Rushes and the forest for the elementary school Architectural biasThe forecourt is imagined as a large transition space between the city and the intimacy of the school contribute to the affirmation of the scale and institutional status of the school group The three hollow entrances on the facade rue de Romilly make it possible to offer a simple reading of the entire building and orientation in the establishment The children of the nursery school access the hall directly facing the courtyard the children who go to after-school care access the hall facing the first patio and the pupils of the elementary school access the third majestic hall in double height including a monumental straight wooden staircase This hall is directly linked to the courtyard and the multipurpose room The three volumes constitute the conceptual order of the project: three programmatic entities for three architectural volumes The city's residents must be able to distinguish the school group as being the meeting of three different entities within the same place The different levels of the building follow the child's school career from kindergarten on the ground floor to CM2 on the first floor The nursery school and the elementary school are clearly distinguished in plan The nursery school is only deployed on the ground floor with the exception of two buffer classes placed on R+1 The elementary school is arranged on two levels: on the ground floor for the common areas and on R+1 for all the classrooms and adult premises The nursery school is positioned to the south of the plot while the elementary school is arranged to the north The common areas such as all the ALHS premises the common area and the catering are located in the center of the two schools Homogeneity within the project is also a key concept allowing it to be understood as the Clause Bois Badeau school group as a whole This is achieved by asserting the structure of the building on the facade and using the same materials: wooden posts on concrete bases interstices in terracotta brick and large wooden glazed frames A structural framework is therefore developed throughout the project Treatment of light and materialsThe treatment of natural light shapes the space The orientations and openings make it possible to obtain different treatments of natural light depending on the spaces while ensuring a generous solar contribution thanks to a cloister organization of the courtyard benefit from optimal sunshine throughout the day Those of the after-school care center have large bay windows overlooking the patios and large glass frames with moucharabieh on the upper floor for the only circulation that serves all the elementary classrooms the thickness of the frame makes it possible to arrange the classrooms on either side of the circulation while opening the end widely onto the Seagrass The transparencies at all points of the school allow for a fairly global perception of the environment vegetation asserts its presence and contributes to the general well-being Interior spacesInterior spaces are primarily aimed at children The school seeks to create a unique universe in which children can identify with the place and make it their own The first vector of identification is signage by integrating easily identifiable logos and at the same time didactic shower rooms and dining rooms are adapted to the height of children The colors and shapes are adapted to the collective imagination of children If children recognize themselves in the treatment of certain spaces they must also be able to leave their mark on them Display areas dedicated to children's interventions are thus provided within the building Storage spaces under the benches and coat hooks are spaces that children can invest with their personal belongings Outdoor spacesEach hall of the school group is directly connected to an outdoor space: the schools are oriented towards the classes while the after-school care opens onto the patios The playground of the nursery schools in the cloister allows the pupils to detach themselves from the city while the playground of the elementary school is oriented towards the forest and the refectory This creates a link with the great landscape of the Joncs Marins and easy access to the refectory The large roof surfaces are planted in different ways The roofs of the ground floor accommodate the educational gardens the ornamental gardens but also a vegetable garden and a nursery The children are therefore detached from the ground floor to turn towards the sky a first large patio of approximately 110m² provides soft light and interactions between the children in the heart of the activity rooms on two levels A second 70m² patio allows the elementary refectory to be entirely oriented towards an abundantly planted exterior The rest room of the ALSH maternal is positioned between these two patios in order to offer it a double orientation inspiring appeasement Vallet de Martinis Architectes. Contractors.- BETCI – AI Environnement - ERA paysagiste.Project Manager.- Skander CHAGOUR Charly Broyez. the architectural studio Vallet de Martinis Architectes led by Antoine Vallet and Guillaume de Martinis is currently based in both Paris and Bordeaux Their work is first and foremost a work on materials It leads their team to question all the premises that make a building not just fulfil its sole function but go beyond to become architecture The field of application of working with materials is wide it is a physical act of transforming materials into volumes It is a sensitive reflection on light and voids It is a responsible choice in terms of economy sustainability and the provenance of materials It is a search for rationality as intelligent simplicity While they recognise work guided by sensibilities they do not want to limit it to certainties They believe that there is no universal truth nor immutable principles that can be applied like a recipe A project is a sum of data and factors to be taken into account From there they decide whether to ignore it defending their initial position at all costs "Only once we have examined the range of possibilities can we propose what we consider to be an adequate response."  Archive Architecture ★ Poor ★ ★ Promising ★★★ Good ★★★★ Very good ★★★★★ Exceptional Vietnam Investment Review under the Ministry of Finance Advertisement  | Contact us the 'theft' of an SNCF manager's computer and 'suggestions of withholding information' were mentioned at the 2013 derailment trial "There's definitely some crazy things going on in this case!" In courtroom number 3 of the Evry criminal court presiding judge Cécile Louis-Loyant can hardly hide her dismay at the mention of what she calls "the peculiarities" of the investigation into the derailment of the Paris-Limoges train On the sixth day of the trial into the rail disaster that claimed the lives of seven people and injured several hundred the investigation's many gray areas and oddities were dissected by the court amidst a very tense atmosphere an SNCF executive had to listen to his own disturbing phone calls Régis Ambert had been wiretapped by investigators a few months after the accident caused by a loose fishplate He was heading up SNCF's national track maintenance engineering division at the time And he seemed embarrassed when the presiding judge read aloud the eight wiretaps involving him an SNCF legal department executive denounced the "incriminating" investigation and advised Mr she told him not to "be proactive" and not to "hand over [documents] on a plate" to the investigators "Time wasted in the investigation costs the taxpayer," pointed out the judge "I have always been fully transparent in giving the judges and the police what they've asked for I have never dressed anything up," replied Mr The executive sticked to his defense: that he had received "instructions or orders" from his superiors Ambert had said he wanted to "shove" his maintenance "standards" away in his "closet" prior to being questioned by investigators "When you see the number of subpoenas actually made it goes to show how complicated it was for investigators," underlined the presiding judge You get the sense that information is being withheld." You have 56.79% of this article left to read Nous vous conseillons de modifier votre mot de passe. Pour plus d’informations, merci de contacter notre service commercial. You don't have permission to access the page you requested. What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed. The accident occurred minutes after the intercity train left the Paris-Austerlitz station. (AFP: Kenzo Tribouillard) Link copiedShareShare articleA train derailment near Paris that killed six people was caused by a fault in the tracks, France's state rail company said, as the transport minister urged upgrades to ageing regional lines. The SNCF said the derailment, which also left dozens injured, was caused by a connecting bar that had come loose at a rail switch at the station at Bretigny-sur-Orge, about 25 kilometres south of Paris. The joint bar "broke away, it became detached and came out of its housing", said Pierre Izard, the SNCF's general manager for infrastructure. "It lodged itself at the centre of the switch, prevented the normal progression of the train's wheels and seems to have caused the train's derailment," he said. The company said the switch had been checked on July 4 and that it was immediately ordering checks of 5,000 similar joints on its network. "We have decided to check equipment of this nature on the entire network and are starting now," SNCF chief Guillaume Pepy said. Transport minister Frederic Cuvillier said human error was not to blame for the accident, praising the train's driver who he said "had absolutely extraordinary reflexes by sending the alert immediately", preventing a collision with an oncoming train. But he said France's regional rail lines were out of date, after the SNCF focused much of its attention in recent years on high-speed TGV lines. "We cannot be satisfied with rolling stock that is 30 years old," Mr Cuvillier said, adding: "The situation is severe, with the deterioration in recent years of traditional lines because of a lack of resources." A railway passenger association also denounced what it called "rust-bucket trains" and the practice of coupling different types of trains together, demanding proper inspections. President Francois Hollande was likely to face tough questions about the accident when he gives an interview to leading French television channels to mark the Bastille Day holiday. A minute of silence was held at noon (local time) on Saturday on all French trains and in all stations for the victims of the accident, which took place as many were leaving for summer holidays. The local prefect's office said the dead were four men and two women, aged between 19 and 82. A source close to the investigation said the dead included a couple in their 80s from Bretigny, three men aged 19, 23, and 60, and a young woman whose age was not immediately clear. Formal identifications of the bodies were underway, the source said. Six people died in the accident. (AFP: Lionel Bonaventure) In what officials described as a "catastrophe", the train came off the tracks and crashed into the station platform as it travelled at 137 kilometres per hour on its way from Paris to the west-central city of Limoges. Four carriages of the train jumped the tracks, of which three overturned. One carriage smashed across a platform and came to rest on a parallel track; another lay half-way across the platform. There were 385 passengers on the train. The local prefect said that death toll of six remained final after the first of the four damaged carriages was removed from the tracks. "We are now sure that there are no other victims," said Michel Fuzeau, the prefect of the Essonne region, adding that 16 people remained hospitalised from the disaster. The SNCF, judicial authorities and France's BEA safety agency were each carrying out separate investigations of the accident. Witnesses said the crash site resembled a war zone, with 57-year-old passenger Marc Cheutin saying he had to "step over a decapitated person" to exit the carriage he had been travelling in. The accident was still causing disruptions on Paris commuter lines on Saturday, while the Paris-Austerlitz station, where the train had departed from on Friday, was expected to remain closed for several days. The derailment was France's worst rail accident since 2008, when a train collided with a schoolbus, killing seven schoolchildren. 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(AFP: Lionel Bonaventure) Link copiedShareShare articleA high-speed train has derailed and hit a station platform just south of Paris, killing at least six people and injuring many more, France's worst rail accident in 25 years. Witnesses said the site of the crash resembled "a war zone", with one survivor describing walking over a decapitated body to escape an overturned carriage. Rescuers were searching into the night for passengers who might be trapped in the wreckage. The train was a regional service heading from Paris to the west-central city of Limoges. It derailed as it passed through the station at Bretigny-sur-Orge, about 25 kilometres south of Paris. Prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, speaking from the accident site, told reporters: "The toll is currently six dead, 30 injured, of whom eight are in a serious condition." The injured were all being treated in local hospitals, he added. Transport minister Frederic Cuvillier said the train had been travelling at 137 kilometres per hour at the time of the crash. That was below the 150kph limit for that part of the track. Around 300 firefighters, 20 paramedic teams and eight helicopters were deployed to treat casualties at the scene and airlift the most seriously injured to nearby hospitals. In total, 192 people were treated by emergency services, officials said. There were 385 passengers on the train. The accident occurred as many in France were departing for the start of their summer holidays ahead of Bastille Day on Sunday. The head of the SNCF rail service, Guillaume Pepy, said six carriages had derailed. The train's third and fourth carriages derailed first and the others followed, he added. Clearly shaken, he expressed the rail company's "solidarity with the victims and their families". "Rail catastrophes are something that upset everyone and all of those who are committed to our national rail service," he said. "We don't yet know the reasons for this derailment." The rail service, judicial authorities and France's BEA safety agency would each be investigating. Passenger Marc Cheutin, 57, said he had to "step over a decapitated person" after the accident to exit the carriage he had been travelling in. "Shortly after departure, just as I was getting into my book, we felt a first shock that shook the carriage I was in. "Then there was a second shock and the carriage lifted up, then a third and a fourth and the carriage went over on its side." A witness who had been waiting for a train at the station, Vianey Kalisa, said: "I saw a lot of wounded people, women and children trapped inside. "I was shaking like a child. People were screaming. One man's face was covered in blood. It was a like a war zone." In the immediate aftermath of the accident, dazed survivors, some in blood-stained clothing, stood near mangled train wagons and the crushed remains of a station platform. Director of security at SNCF Alain Krakovitch praised the quick reaction of the train driver. "He felt jolts entering the station and applied the regulation measures in the space of a few seconds, which is to say a radio warning signal and a light warning signal", thus stopping all traffic in the area. His quick thinking avoided any collision with approaching trains, Mr Krakovitch said. Earlier in the evening French president Francois Hollande visited the scene and met officials. He confirmed three investigations were underway but added: "We should avoid unnecessary speculation. What happened will eventually be known and the proper conclusions will be drawn." Officials said the derailment happened at 5.14 pm (local time), minutes after the intercity train left the Paris-Austerlitz station. The derailment was France's worst rail accident since an SNCF commuter train crashed into a stationary train at Paris's Gare de Lyon terminal in 1988, killing 56 people. While investigators search for the cause of France's worst train disaster in 25 years the government has vowed to improve the maintenance of its ageing rail network But the derailment of a packed intercity train – which last week killed six and injured more than 100 – has left the country soul-searching about what used to be a point of national pride: its world-famous which once put its European neighbours to shame The accident at Brétigny-sur-Orge, south of Paris, has served to highlight what for years has been the dark side of the French railway dream: behind the famous, high-speed Train á Grande Vitesse (TGV) France struggled with neglected overcrowded local lines starved of funds as the fast lines soaked up state investment Like the Potters Bar derailment in Hertfordshire in 2002 The shock and confusion have been exacerbated by the circumstances of what France calls "the catastrophe" It was afternoon rush hour on one of the busiest holiday getaway days of the year through which 18,000 passengers a day pass the platform was heaving with workers and holidaymakers Intercity trains from Paris regularly thunder through the station non-stop the intercity bound for Limoges derailed at 85mph: four carriages slid off the tracks Witnesses described a deafening noise like an earthquake; the scene was "an apocalypse" said one local politician; others called it a warzone The platform clock is still frozen at just after 5:10 four had been standing on the platform: an elderly couple in their 80s; a 23-year-old assistant at the local high school and a 19-year-old budding local footballer from Guadeloupe "I will never wait on a train platform again," said Benedicte She had left him on the platform and walked down the steps when she heard "this massive boom" She said: "I still can't accept he's dead it's as if he made it home and is waiting there." If she has to use a train now she cowers by the ticket office and runs up to the platform at the last minute particularly not in France; everyone trusts French trains," said Huguette Thetiot a Paris accountant who commutes from Brétigny each day Sabotage was said to be unlikely – another train used the same tracks half an hour before without a problem – although not yet ruled out But several railway unions expressed concern and scepticism at what they warned was an over-speedy PR-managed verdict on behalf of state rail Three investigations are under way – one criminal It remains to be seen whether the faulty connecting bar was down to technical faults ageing equipment or maintenance failures – possibly by private contractors – all of which would cause a scandal anger at France's two-tier railway system is mounting a series of reports has sounded the alarm about the chronic underinvestment in France's regular rail lines described as the "poor cousin" of the high-speed links launched to great fanfare in 1981 over 1.7 billion passengers have travelled on France's well maintained high-speed trains – which link cities such as Lyon Avignon and Marseille to Paris – without a single death or injury But the majority of French travellers still have to use regular lines High-speed trains represent less than 20% of travellers and only 1,900km of a total of around 30,000km of track a report by the École Polytechnique de Lausanne warned that France's regular non-high-speed train lines were so degraded that 60% of them would be unusable in 2025 the state auditor warned that 20 years of underinvestment in the packed local train lines of the wider Paris region was "above all" because the state had been prioritising high-speed trains with the deterioration in recent years of traditional lines because of a lack of resources." One railway passenger association denounced what it called "rust-bucket trains" the Socialist government had signalled the end of an era by putting the brakes on ambitious TGV expansion plans which would have almost doubled the high-speed rail network over the next two decades they said investment must be channelled to other lines Ten prestige new projects vaunted by the former president Nicolas Sarkozy including fast lines to Normandy and Spain said it had been a lie to suggest to the French public that the cash-strapped French state could afford these staggering new TGV projects François Hollande said he had already made the maintenance of regular lines a "priority" With 14,000 trains running each day in France the derailment risks shaking the public's relationship with the state rail company which is no stranger to being sued by unsatisfied customers a legal secretary in Lyon won €1,500(£1,300) compensation after repeated rail delays resulted in her losing her job for arriving late to work SNCF was made to pay €800 damages after a seven-hour delay on the Paris-Lyon line cost a passenger a day's work where 1,000 people regularly cram into commuter trains passengers have long complained of cancellations "In the mornings on the Paris-bound platforms you see massive crowds and people going mad," sighed Daniel Valade who worked in logistics on an industrial estate outside Brétigny Sandra Patin was preparing the day's cutlets She lives opposite the station and heard the derailment "The only way we can trust French trains again is if we get the full truth of what really happened here," she said An out of date map of France's TGV network was removed From the Promenades shopping center in Brétigny-sur-Orge, we already knew Fort Boyard Aventures theaction game inspired by the famous TV show a brand-new trampoline park that opened at the end of April 2024 Multiply your jumps and pirouettes on the many trampolines experience the thrill of throwing yourself into the void from the top of the Jump Tower try your hand at trampoline basketball by shooting as many baskets as you can.. Or try your hand at the Ninja Warrior course theWipeout attraction or the Scratch Walls (velcro walls to hold on to with specially adapted wetsuits loaned on site) It's also possible to celebrateyour child's birthday at KoJump in Brétigny with a jumping session for all their friends Count on €19 to €24 per child to celebrate a birthday that's as sporty as it is fun The cost is €13 per person for an hour of jumping and €17 for a child aged 4 or 5 and an accompanying adult (who must be on the trampoline with the child) Shall we go jumping at KoJump in Brétigny-sur-Orge France's holiday spirits were literally crashed when a local intercity express with 385 passengers derailed before crashing in to Bretigny-sur-Orge station in south of Paris on Friday evening The horrific incident killed 6 people and injured over 100 out of which 22 people are reported to be in critical condition An eyewitness waiting for train in the adjacent station told Associated Press (AP) There was blood. People were screaming people were asking where their children were." SNCF informed that the intercity carrying 385 commuters first derailed at 5:15pm on Friday and then four of its seven compartments crashed into the crowded Bretigny-sur-Orge station British student Marvin Khareem narrated his harrowing experience to BBC Radio "The train went off the railway; it just went on the platform and kind of flew in the air for a second and went upside down." "The first and the second coach were completely destroyed I really thought no-one could survive that because it was completely mashed up Everyone was crying and running everywhere A woman was crying for her daughter who was still on the train." Just as the news of the accident poured in France president Francois Hollande reached the spot and expressed dismay at the accident "A catastrophe has taken place," and informed that the station would be closed for three days While passengers of the ill-fated train told local media that many of the co-passengers were either electrocuted or crushed and many others were hit by the flying glass from the train's windows "We felt a big impact - as if we had run up onto something - then the train started to keel over and it came off the track the number of casualties could rise since many were fatally injured At least eight people have been killed and scores injured after a packed passenger train derailed south of Paris this evening The high speed intercity train was travelling from the French capital to the city of Limoges when it derailed onto its side in a train station in the suburb of Bretigny-sur-Orge at about 3.15pm GMT with the victims being crushed to death or electrocuted Rescue workers are now desperately battling to free passengers still trapped inside the train said: ‘Three carriages are entangled with each other in front of the station with another one lying a little further to the south ‘I have no idea of how many casualties but it may be very high said the train was carrying 350 passengers when it derailed at 3.15pm GMT and crashed into the station at Bretigny-sur-Orge A police spokesman added: ‘The train arrived at the station at high speed It split into two for a reason still unknown and one part of the train kept going while another fell onto its side.’ France’s transport minister is heading to the site a trendy tech brand crafted for young consumers Renowned Nigerian author Ayobami Adebayo has added yet another feather to her literary cap as her second novel In its quest to inspire a generation of women to do greater things in diverse fields of endeavour It is a daredevil attempt arguing that you .. 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