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Issue 01 June 11 - 24, 2015
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Finally Going Home After months of waiting, the first victims’ remains from the Germanwings plane which crashed into the French Alps are being flown from France to Germany, 11 weeks after the disaster that killed all 150 people on-board
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OZENS of victims’ relatives from the March 24th crash in the French Alps have been awaiting the return of the remains. In the first repatriation, 44 coffins have been flown from Marseille to Duesseldorf. Germanwings parent company Lufthansa has chartered a plane
to bring the coffins to Germany, and has said that other remains will be repatriated by month’s end. Elmar Giemulla, a lawyer for families of 34 victims, said many relatives “don’t want to realise that their children are dead. It will be brutal when they see the coffins, but it is necessary, because they need
AFRICAN BOY FOUND IN SUITCASE REUNITED WITH HIS FAMILY THE 8-year-old Ivory Coast boy caught being smuggled into Spain in a suitcase last month has finally been reunited with both his mother & father. Adou Ouattara, was returned to his mother at a youth centre early this week where he has been cared for since bor-
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Round-up of recent sporting events See page 98 Adou reunited with his mother
Teddy bears dressed in the uniforms of a Germanwings pilot and a flight attendant sit in the centre of a wreath outside the Germanwings headquarters at Cologne-Bonn airport
closure.” Investigators believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who had a history of depression, intentionally crashed the A320 flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. The victims who originated from 18 countries, including Australia, Argentina and Japan, but most of those on board were either Spanish or German. Sadly, though some families are still left without a definite date of when the bodies will be ready because of clerical errors
der police discovered him on May 7th in the suitcase of a Moroccan woman. The boy’s father, who lives legally with the mother in Spain, was arrested hours after the boy was discovered and was jailed on abuse charges for trying to have him smuggled into the country, but he too has been freed on bail so the family have finally be re-united Through his lawyer, the father has said he knew nothing of the suitcase plan, believing his son was to be brought in by car with a visa he had paid for. Memorial close to the crash site
made on the death certificates in France.
ERRORS The mayor of the French village of Prads-Haute-Bleone, near the crash site, who signed the death certificates, said there had been slight spelling errors “of foreignsounding names” on six or seven of the documents“ but all the certificates left three weeks ago and as soon as we get the corrections requested by the prosecutor we will carry them out.”