Court decides to compensate parents and grandmother of Jérémy Wasson, an engineering student who died during the internship.
Jérémy Wasson was still in the early stages of his engineering stage. To the 21 years, It was his first stage as a student at the Special School of Public Works.
It was in one construction shipyard From the Urbanización of Labor, a subsidiary of the Fayat Group in Pantin (France).
The works had only started three days ago – and the young man he died. Fell into a smoke extraction systemof a height of another 5 meters; And he could not resist, dying in the hospital. This was in 2020.
Now a civil court in Nanterre has ruled Compensate the family: 85 thousand euros to the parents and the grandmother of Jérémy Wasson.
The French justice considered that, although the safety conditions are not ideal (it was only a loose wooden board in the “funnel” of the system), The young man should not be thereappointment or.
This decision comes after a appeal the company and the engineer responsible for the work; They had been fined 240,000 euros and accused of not having formed the young man properly. The responsible technician was also the target of a 12 -month prison sentence, in addition to the 10,000 euros fine.
Parents consider compensation of 85 thousand euros insufficient. There were 35 thousand euros for his mother, 35 thousand euros for his father, 15 thousand euros for grandmother.
And regret: “It seems that the loss of a child is not worth much. The court accepted the company’s financial offer, ”laments father Frédéric Wasson, young man’s father, no.
Jérémy’s father also criticized the lack of recognition of Psychological effects and economic suffered by the family.
The family lawyer, Juliette Pappo, clarified that “the criminal justice system was more forceful than the civilian.”
