Prosecutors have begun an appeal after three teachers from England were cleared of the manslaughter of a British schoolgirl who drowned during a school trip to France.
Jessica Lawson, 12, from East Yorkshire, died after a plastic pontoon in a lake near Limoges overturned in July 2015.
On Thursday, Mr Lemaire was being cross-examined at the Limoges Court of Appeal after insisting that he was used to seeing the pontoon overturn, and it was not considered dangerous. 'I grew up right next to this stretch of water,' Mr Lemaire told the court. 'I can't count the number of times I went there and saw the platform turn over with swimmers on top of it, and there was never an accident.'
The grounds for the current appeal relate to the upkeep of the orange pontoon which overturned, and the security around it. The original trial, held in Tulle, heard how Jessica – the youngest pupil in the school party – was hit on the head when the pontoon flipped over.
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