tkazaz,
WINGS FOLDED may find it helpful to read the Time report
No, I do not find it helpful.
I never have found reports of journalists with little or no knowledge of the topic to be helpful.
I know that Continental are defendants in this case. Iknow also that other corporations are defendants also.
I wished to add that, and it is obvious, acquittal is also a possible outcome.
It has been almost ten years since the event.
French legal procedure requires an examining magistrate (Juge d' Instruction ) to identify parties potentially implicated.
Much of these ten years have been spent with all the evidence with which the Court has been bombarded being sorted, examined, verified.
We are now at trial stage.
Extravagent/ridiculous hypotheses have been set aside.
The judicial system will make a determination.
It may well exhonerate a welder working for Continental. Or Continental full stop.
Or it may not.
That is the job of these judges.
It is not the job of journalists from "Time".
It is not the job of contributors to this forum.