France Judicial Inquiry
France opens probe into MH370 crash: judicial source
Paris prosecutors have launched a judicial investigation for involuntary homicide following the Malaysia Airlines plane crash, a judicial source said Friday.
The probe was launched on Wednesday. Four French nationals were among the passengers, including three students from the French school in Beijing, and the mother of two of the pupils.
The aircraft disappeared on March 8 with 239 people on board and an intense search for the plane has been scaled back after coming up with nothing despite an air and sea hunt over 4.64 million square kilometres of the southern Indian Ocean.
Source: France opens probe into MH370 crash: judicial source Astro Awani ATWMY-064
French Passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Laurence Wattrelos (52) was accompanied by two of her three children, Hadrien (17) and Ambre (14) and French national Zhao Yan (18) on flight MH370. They were returning to Beijing after a holiday in Malaysia. Hadrien, Ambre and Zhao attended a French school Lycée Français International de Pékin in Beijing.
Ghyslain Wattrelos had flown from Paris and was expecting to meet his wife and children at the Beijing Airport but instead was informed by French diplomats that the aircraft was missing.
Ghyslain has actively encouraged French authorities to investigate the loss of his family, and authored a book Vol MH370: Une vie détournée.
It is normal practice for French judiciary to investigate the death of French citizens overseas.
Discovery of Flaperon on Reunion Island
Right Flaperon
Confirmed by French Judicial Authority belonging to MH370 on 03 September 2015
Aircraft debris, identified as a Flaperon, was discovered on La Réunion Island on 29 July 2015.
French authorities transported the flaperon to DGA TA aeronautical testing site near Toulouse for forensic examination.
Spokesperson for the investigators was Paris Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak.